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title: Anne Lisbeth's boy also sat in the sunshine on the top of the fence,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Anne Lisbeth's boy also sat in the sunshine on the top of the fence, cutting out a little toy. Who acts: boy. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 13

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Anne Lisbeth's boy also sat in the sunshine on the top of the fence, cutting out a little toy.

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**Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** sit, cut out · **To what, where:** sunshine, little toy

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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:pg27200:5:13
# text = Anne Lisbeth's boy also sat in the sunshine on the top of the fence, cutting out a little toy.
1	Anne	Anne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	Lisbeth	Lisbeth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
4	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	also	also	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	fence	fence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	cutting	cut	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	toy	toy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | Anne's boy |  |  | the sunshine |  | on the top of the fence | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sunshine=Location |
| 2 | **cut out** | gerund | Anne's boy *not said here* | a little toy |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector toy=Eventuality |

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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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