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title: Within the flower, upon the green velvet stamens, sat a very delicat… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Within the flower, upon the green velvet stamens, sat a very delicate and graceful little maiden. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 8

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Within the flower, upon the green velvet stamens, sat a very delicate and graceful little maiden.

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**What happens:** sit · **To what, where:** delicate graceful little maiden

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg27200:79:8
# text = Within the flower, upon the green velvet stamens, sat a very delicate and graceful little maiden.
1	Within	within	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	velvet	velvet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	stamens	stamen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	delicate	delicate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	graceful	graceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past |  | a delicate graceful little maiden |  |  |  | within the flower and the green velvet stamens | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location maiden=Theme |

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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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