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title: The body crumbled into dust, and a faded lotus-flower lay on the spo… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The body crumbled into dust, and a faded lotus-flower lay on the spot on which Helga had stood. Who acts: body, faded lotus flower, Helga. 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 every
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 99

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The body crumbled into dust, and a faded lotus-flower lay on the spot on which Helga had stood.

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**Who acts:** body, faded lotus flower, Helga · **What happens:** crumble, fade, lie, stand · **To what, where:** dust, spot

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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 (body, faded lotus flower, Helga), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:6573`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:88:99
# text = The body crumbled into dust, and a faded lotus-flower lay on the spot on which Helga had stood.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	crumbled	crumble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	faded	fade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	amod	_	_
10	lotus	lotus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
12	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obl	_	_
19	Helga	Helga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	stood	stand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	acl:relcl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crumble** | past | the body |  |  |  |  | into dust *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into dust=Result |
| 2 | **fade** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **lie** | past | a faded lotus flower |  |  | the spot |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on spot=Location |
| 4 | **stand** | past · perfect | Helga |  |  | the spot |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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