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title: Late in the night, while the gentle sleep of peace rested on the now… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Late in the night, while the gentle sleep of peace rested on the now happy house, there was still one watcher. Who acts: one watcher, peace. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 16

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Late in the night, while the gentle sleep of peace rested on the now happy house, there was still one watcher.

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**Who acts:** one watcher, peace · **What happens:** rest, be, sleep · **To what, where:** gentle sleep, happy house

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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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one watcher, peace), 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:pg27200:88:16
# text = Late in the night, while the gentle sleep of peace rested on the now happy house, there was still one watcher.
1	Late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	rested	rest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
16	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
19	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	20	expl	_	_
20	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	still	still	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	watcher	watcher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rest** | participle |  | the gentle sleep of peace *not said here* |  | the happy house |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on house=Location |
| 2 | **be** | past | one watcher |  |  | there | night |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **sleep** |  | peace |  |  |  |  |  | nom sleep «state intransitive»: of=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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