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title: Patiently she allowed herself to be lifted on the horse, and sat the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Patiently she allowed herself to be lifted on the horse, and sat there like a somnambulist--as one who walked in his sleep. Who acts: evil, Helga. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 32

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Patiently she allowed herself to be lifted on the horse, and sat there like a somnambulist--as one who walked in his sleep.

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**Who acts:** evil, Helga · **What happens:** allow, lift, sit, walk, sleep · **To what, where:** evil, sleep

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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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (evil, Helga), 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:pg27200:86:32
# text = Patiently she allowed herself to be lifted on the horse, and sat there like a somnambulist--as one who walked in his sleep.
1	Patiently	patiently	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	allowed	allow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	lifted	lift	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	xcomp	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	somnambulist	somnambulist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **allow** | past | evil | evil |  |  |  | patiently *property* | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer herself=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **lift** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | evil *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on the horse | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: on horse=Destination |
| 3 | **sit** | past | evil *not said here* |  |  | there |  | like a somnambulist; as one | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **walk** | past |  |  |  | Helga's sleep |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sleep=Trajectory |
| 5 | **sleep** |  | Helga |  |  |  |  |  | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=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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