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title: In the dawn of morning there lay the poor little one, with pale chee… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In the dawn of morning there lay the poor little one, with pale cheeks and smiling mouth, leaning against the wall; she had been frozen to death on the last evening of the year; and the New-year's sun rose and shone upon a little corpse! Who acts: sun. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian An
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Match-seller, sentence 39

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In the dawn of morning there lay the poor little one, with pale cheeks and smiling mouth, leaning against the wall; she had been frozen to death on the last evening of the year; and the New-year's sun rose and shone upon a little corpse!

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**Who acts:** sun · **What happens:** lie, smile, lean, freeze, rise, shine · **To what, where:** poor little one, wall, grandmother, little corpse

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Match-seller. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun), 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:pg27200:74:39
# text = In the dawn of morning there lay the poor little one, with pale cheeks and smiling mouth, leaning against the wall; she had been frozen to death on the last evening of the year; and the New-year's sun rose and shone upon a little corpse!
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
7	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	smiling	smile	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	amod	_	_
18	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	leaning	lean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
21	against	against	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	46	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
41	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	's	's	PART	POS	_	43	case	_	_
45	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
46	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	conj	_	_
49	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	corpse	corpse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past |  | the poor little one and pale cheeks and smiling mouth |  | there | dawn |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme |
| 2 | **smile** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **lean** | gerund |  |  |  | the wall |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against wall=Location |
| 4 | **freeze** | past · perfect · passive |  | grandmother |  |  | evening | to death | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
| 5 | **rise** | past | the New year's sun |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **shine** | past | the New year's sun *not said here* |  |  | a little corpse |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon corpse=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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