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title: She sprang from her couch, lighted a pine-chip, and searched all rou… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She sprang from her couch, lighted a pine-chip, and searched all round the room, when, at last, in that part of the bed where her feet had been, lay, not the child, but a great, ugly frog. Who acts: infant, couch. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh Ki
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 84

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She sprang from her couch, lighted a pine-chip, and searched all round the room, when, at last, in that part of the bed where her feet had been, lay, not the child, but a great, ugly frog.

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**Who acts:** infant, couch · **What happens:** spring, light, search · **To what, where:** great ugly frog, couch, pine chip, room

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (infant, couch), 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:pg27200:83:84
# text = She sprang from her couch, lighted a pine-chip, and searched all round the room, when, at last, in that part of the bed where her feet had been, lay, not the child, but a great, ugly frog.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	couch	couch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	lighted	light	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	chip	chip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	searched	search	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	all	all	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	round	round	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	parataxis	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	35	advmod	_	_
32	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
34	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	lay	lay	INTJ	UH	_	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
43	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
45	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
47	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spring** | past | infant | a great ugly frog |  | infant's couch |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from couch=Trajectory |
| 2 | **light** | participle | infant's couch *not said here* | a pine chip |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chip=Product |
| 3 | **search** | past | infant *not said here* | the room |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent room=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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