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title: And then she took the little boy out of bed and placed him on her bo… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And then she took the little boy out of bed and placed him on her bosom; the elder branches, full of blossoms, closed over them; it was as if they sat in a thick leafy bower which flew with them through the air; it was beautiful beyond all description. Who acts: bush, branches, thick leafy bower, li
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 64

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And then she took the little boy out of bed and placed him on her bosom; the elder branches, full of blossoms, closed over them; it was as if they sat in a thick leafy bower which flew with them through the air; it was beautiful beyond all description.

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**Who acts:** bush, branches, thick leafy bower, life · **What happens:** take, place, close, sit, fly, be · **To what, where:** little boy, bed, boy, bosom, blossoms, thick leafy bower

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bush, branches, thick leafy bower, life), 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:pg27200:72:64
# text = And then she took the little boy out of bed and placed him on her bosom; the elder branches, full of blossoms, closed over them; it was as if they sat in a thick leafy bower which flew with them through the air; it was beautiful beyond all description.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	bosom	bosom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
27	over	over	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	cop	_	_
32	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
38	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
39	leafy	leafy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	bower	bower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
41	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	42	nsubj	_	_
42	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	acl:relcl	_	_
43	with	with	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obl	_	_
45	through	through	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	51	punct	_	_
49	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
50	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	cop	_	_
51	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
52	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	54	det	_	_
54	description	description	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | bush | the little boy |  | bed | then |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument boy=Theme branch=Destination |
| 2 | **place** | past | bush *not said here* | boy |  | bush's bosom |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme on bosom=Destination |
| 3 | **close** | participle |  | blossoms *not said here* |  |  |  | over blossoms *= blossom* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **sit** | past | branches *= branch* |  |  | a thick leafy bower |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bower=Location |
| 5 | **fly** | past | a thick leafy bower |  |  | the air |  | with branches *= branch* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Location |
| 6 | **is** | past | life |  |  |  |  | beyond all description; beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **bosom** |  | bush |  |  |  |  |  | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=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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