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title: While at the prince's palace, and when all the household were asleep… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: While at the prince's palace, and when all the household were asleep, she would go and sit on the broad marble steps; for it eased her burning feet to bathe them in the cold sea-water; and then she thought of all those below in the deep. Who acts: household, mermaid. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Ha
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 57

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While at the prince's palace, and when all the household were asleep, she would go and sit on the broad marble steps; for it eased her burning feet to bathe them in the cold sea-water; and then she thought of all those below in the deep.

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**Who acts:** household, mermaid · **What happens:** be, go, sit, ease, burn, bathe · **To what, where:** mermaid, feet

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (household, mermaid), 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:pg27200:77:57
# text = While at the prince's palace, and when all the household were asleep, she would go and sit on the broad marble steps; for it eased her burning feet to bathe them in the cold sea-water; and then she thought of all those below in the deep.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	14	mark	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	eased	ease	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
30	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	advcl	_	_
32	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	bathe	bathe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	advcl	_	_
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
38	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
39	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	46	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
44	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	46	advmod	_	_
45	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	49	det:predet	_	_
49	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	46	obl	_	_
50	below	below	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
51	in	in	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	deep	deep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | all household |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | would | mermaid |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **sit** | infinitive | mermaid *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on the broad marble steps | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on step=Location |
| 4 | **ease** | past | household | mermaid |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 5 | **burn** | gerund | household *not said here* | feet |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent foot=Theme |
| 6 | **bathe** | to-infinitive | household *not said here* | feet *= foot* |  |  |  | in the cold sea water | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Destination in water=Theme |
| 7 | **think** *speech: other* | past | mermaid |  |  |  | then | of those | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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