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title: Under the table, at his feet, lay the sack containing the horse's sk… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Under the table, at his feet, lay the sack containing the horse's skin, which he intended to sell at the next town. Who acts: sack. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 46

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Under the table, at his feet, lay the sack containing the horse's skin, which he intended to sell at the next town.

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**Who acts:** sack · **What happens:** lie, contain, intend, sell · **To what, where:** table, skin, next town

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sack), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:5017`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:71:46
# text = Under the table, at his feet, lay the sack containing the horse's skin, which he intended to sell at the next town.
1	Under	under	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
12	containing	contain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	acl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obj	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	intended	intend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | the sack |  |  | the table |  | at farmer's feet | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under table=Location |
| 2 | **contain** | gerund | the sack *not said here* | the horse's skin |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot skin=Theme |
| 3 | **intend** | past | sack |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **sell** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | sack *not said here* |  |  | the next town |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent which=Theme at town=Asset |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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