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title: Then she told them to lie quite still and be good, while she made so… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she told them to lie quite still and be good, while she made some tea for them, so that they might be quite well and able to get up the next morning. Who acts: Ida, flowers. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, with its dependency tree 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 69

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Then she told them to lie quite still and be good, while she made some tea for them, so that they might be quite well and able to get up the next morning.

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**Who acts:** Ida, flowers · **What happens:** tell, lie, be, make, get up · **To what, where:** flowers, tea · **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 (Ida, 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:pg27200:73:69
# text = Then she told them to lie quite still and be good, while she made some tea for them, so that they might be quite well and able to get up the next morning.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
11	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	27	mark	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	fixed	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
24	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
26	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	up	up	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Ida |  | flowers *= flower* |  | then |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **lie** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Ida *not said here* |  |  |  | still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | infinitive | Ida *not said here* |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | past | Ida | some tea |  |  |  | for flowers *= flower* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent tea=Material for they=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **is** | might | flowers *= flower* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | flowers *= flower* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **get up** | to-infinitive | flowers *= flower* *not said here* |  |  |  | morning |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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