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title: Her head rested on dry land, but her feet were in the water; her woo… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Her head rested on dry land, but her feet were in the water; her wooden shoes, which were only tied on by a wisp of straw, were carried away by the stream, and thus she was found by Martha when she came to bring her some coffee. Who acts: head, feet, wisp, stream. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 153

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Her head rested on dry land, but her feet were in the water; her wooden shoes, which were only tied on by a wisp of straw, were carried away by the stream, and thus she was found by Martha when she came to bring her some coffee.

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**Who acts:** head, feet, wisp, stream, Martha, banns · **What happens:** rest, be, tie on, carry away, find, come · **To what, where:** dry land, water, wooden shoes, banns, coffee

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head, feet, wisp, stream), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:46:153
# text = Her head rested on dry land, but her feet were in the water; her wooden shoes, which were only tied on by a wisp of straw, were carried away by the stream, and thus she was found by Martha when she came to bring her some coffee.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rested	rest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
22	only	only	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	wisp	wisp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
33	away	away	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	by	by	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
39	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
40	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
41	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux:pass	_	_
42	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	conj	_	_
43	by	by	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	Martha	Martha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
45	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	47	advmod	_	_
46	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	advcl	_	_
48	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
49	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	xcomp	_	_
50	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	obj	_	_
51	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	52	det	_	_
52	coffee	coffee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rest** | past | banns's head |  |  | dry land |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on land=Location |
| 2 | **is** | past | banns's feet |  |  | the water |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tie on** | past · passive | a wisp of straw | banns's wooden shoes |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 4 | **carry away** | past · passive | the stream |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **find** | past · passive | Martha | banns |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic |
| 6 | **come** | past | banns |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **bring** | to-infinitive | banns *not said here* | some coffee | banns |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination coffee=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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