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title: At her side sits a young man, tall and strong; he gives her a rose a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: At her side sits a young man, tall and strong; he gives her a rose and she smiles. Who acts: man, GRANDMOTHER. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 177

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At her side sits a young man, tall and strong; he gives her a rose and she smiles.

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**Who acts:** man, GRANDMOTHER · **What happens:** sit, give, smile · **To what, where:** young man, side, rose, GRANDMOTHER

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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 (man, GRANDMOTHER), 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:pg27200:46:177
# text = At her side sits a young man, tall and strong; he gives her a rose and she smiles.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
15	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	iobj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	smiles	smile	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | present |  | a young man |  | GRANDMOTHER's side |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent man=Theme at side=Location |
| 2 | **give** | present | man | a rose | GRANDMOTHER |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient rose=Theme |
| 3 | **smile** | present | GRANDMOTHER |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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