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title: At the piano sat a large yellow lily which little Ida was sure she h… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: At the piano sat a large yellow lily which little Ida was sure she had seen in the summer, for she remembered the student saying she was very much like Miss Lina, one of Ida's friends. Who acts: little Ida, Ida. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ida's F
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 88

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At the piano sat a large yellow lily which little Ida was sure she had seen in the summer, for she remembered the student saying she was very much like Miss Lina, one of Ida's friends.

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**Who acts:** little Ida, Ida · **What happens:** sit, be, see, remember, say · **To what, where:** large yellow lily, piano, student · **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 (little Ida, Ida), 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:pg27200:73:88
# text = At the piano sat a large yellow lily which little Ida was sure she had seen in the summer, for she remembered the student saying she was very much like Miss Lina, one of Ida's friends.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	piano	piano	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	lily	lily	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	ccomp	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Ida	Ida	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	ccomp	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	student	student	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
29	very	very	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	much	much	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
31	like	like	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	ccomp	_	_
33	Lina	Lina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	Ida	Ida	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	's	's	PART	POS	_	37	case	_	_
39	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past |  | a large yellow lily |  | the piano |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent lily=Theme at piano=Location |
| 2 | **is** | past | little Ida |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | past · perfect | Ida |  |  |  | summer |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **remember** | past | Ida | the student |  |  |  | one of Ida's friends *obl* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent student=Theme |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Ida *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | past | Ida |  |  |  |  | like Miss | tree rules |

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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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