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title: Then Sophy was very happy, and said they might keep her bed; she did… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Sophy was very happy, and said they might keep her bed; she did not mind lying in the drawer at all. Who acts: Sophy, flowers. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 115

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Then Sophy was very happy, and said they might keep her bed; she did not mind lying in the drawer at all.

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**Who acts:** Sophy, flowers · **What happens:** be, say, keep, not mind, lie · **To what, where:** bed, drawer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sophy, flowers), 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:pg27200:73:115
# text = Then Sophy was very happy, and said they might keep her bed; she did not mind lying in the drawer at all.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	Sophy	sophy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	mind	mind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
19	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	xcomp	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	drawer	drawer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Sophy |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Sophy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **keep** | might | flowers *= flower* | Sophy's bed |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **mind** | past · do-support | Sophy |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **lie** | gerund | Sophy *not said here* |  |  | the drawer |  | at all | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in drawer=Location |

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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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