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title: The hymn-book, in which the rose still lay, was placed under her hea… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The hymn-book, in which the rose still lay, was placed under her head, for so she had wished it; and then they buried grandmother. Who acts: rose, book, eyes. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 187

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The hymn-book, in which the rose still lay, was placed under her head, for so she had wished it; and then they buried grandmother.

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**Who acts:** rose, book, eyes · **What happens:** lie, place, wish, bury · **To what, where:** hymn book, head, 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 (rose, book, eyes), 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:pg27200:46:187
# text = The hymn-book, in which the rose still lay, was placed under her head, for so she had wished it; and then they buried grandmother.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	hymn	hymn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	still	still	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	under	under	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	wished	wish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	buried	bury	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
30	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | the rose |  |  | the hymn book | still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in which=Location |
| 2 | **place** | past · passive |  | the hymn book |  | book's head |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme under head=Destination |
| 3 | **wish** | past · perfect | book | rose |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
| 4 | **bury** | past | eyes *= eye* | grandmother |  |  | then |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandmother=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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