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title: Numerous insects, especially butterflies and bees, lay dead in heaps… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Numerous insects, especially butterflies and bees, lay dead in heaps on the snow. Who acts: Numerous insects. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 47

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Numerous insects, especially butterflies and bees, lay dead in heaps on the snow.

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**Who acts:** Numerous insects · **What happens:** lay · **To what, where:** heaps

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Numerous insects), 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:pg27200:53:47
# text = Numerous insects, especially butterflies and bees, lay dead in heaps on the snow.
1	Numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	heaps	heap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | present | Numerous insects and butterflies and bees |  |  | heaps |  | on the snow; dead *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in heap=Destination |

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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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