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title: He crept into a fold of the damp linen, which certainly was not so c… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He crept into a fold of the damp linen, which certainly was not so comfortable a place to lie in as the warm stable, but there was nothing better, so he remained lying there for a whole day and night, and the rain kept on all the time. Who acts: beetle, damp linen, nothing, rain. A sentence of «Fair
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 44

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He crept into a fold of the damp linen, which certainly was not so comfortable a place to lie in as the warm stable, but there was nothing better, so he remained lying there for a whole day and night, and the rain kept on all the time.

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**Who acts:** beetle, damp linen, nothing, rain · **What happens:** creep, not be, place, lie in, be, remain · **To what, where:** fold

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beetle, damp linen, nothing, rain), 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:pg27200:8:44
# text = He crept into a fold of the damp linen, which certainly was not so comfortable a place to lie in as the warm stable, but there was nothing better, so he remained lying there for a whole day and night, and the rain kept on all the time.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fold	fold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	damp	damp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	linen	linen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
12	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	stable	stable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	29	expl	_	_
29	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
30	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	29	nsubj	_	_
31	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	30	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	so	so	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
36	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	35	xcomp	_	_
37	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	36	advmod	_	_
38	for	for	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
48	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
49	on	on	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	52	det:predet	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **creep** | past | beetle |  |  | a fold of the damp linen |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into fold=Destination |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | certainly, comfortable *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **place** |  | the damp linen |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **lie in** | to-infinitive | beetle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as the warm stable | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **be** | past | nothing |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **remain** | past | beetle |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **lie** | gerund | beetle *not said here* |  |  | there | day |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **keep** | participle | the rain |  |  |  | time |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: 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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