--- title: Then she brought the heaviest stones that she could carry, and laid… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Then she brought the heaviest stones that she could carry, and laid them over the dead body, filling up the crevices with moss, till she thought she had fenced in his resting-place strongly enough. Who acts: animal. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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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 (animal), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:86:61 # text = Then she brought the heaviest stones that she could carry, and laid them over the dead body, filling up the crevices with moss, till she thought she had fenced in his resting-place strongly enough. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 heaviest heavy ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 6 amod _ _ 6 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 that that SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 8 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 laid lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 over over ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 filling fill VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 21 up up ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 crevices crevice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 moss moss NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 till till SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 30 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 fenced fence VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 29 ccomp _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 34 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 35 resting resting NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 36 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 38 strongly strongly ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 enough enough ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bring** | past | animal | the heaviest stones | | | then | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent stone=Theme | | 2 | **carry** | could | animal | | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **lay** | past | animal *not said here* | leaves *= leaf* | | the dead body | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme over body=Destination | | 4 | **fill up** | gerund | animal *not said here* | the crevices | | | | with moss | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent crevice=Patient with moss=Instrument | | 5 | **think** *speech: other* | past | animal | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **fence** | past · perfect | animal | | | skin's resting place | | enough *property* | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/86/60/) - next →: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/86/62/) - ↑ back to [The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/86/)