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title: "She was lying in bed in a house in that narrow street: she was sick… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "She was lying in bed in a house in that narrow street: she was sick unto death, and the cruel landlord came up, and tore away the thin coverlet, her only protection against the cold. ' Who acts: daughter, cruel landlord. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Thir
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Evening, sentence 11

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"She was lying in bed in a house in that narrow street: she was sick unto death, and the cruel landlord came up, and tore away the thin coverlet, her only protection against the cold. '

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**Who acts:** daughter, cruel landlord · **What happens:** lie, be, come up, protect · **To what, where:** bed, tore

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, cruel landlord), 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:pg27200:94:11
# text = "She was lying in bed in a house in that narrow street: she was sick unto death, and the cruel landlord came up, and tore away the thin coverlet, her only protection against the cold. '
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
12	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
18	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	landlord	landlord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
26	up	up	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	tore	tore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	away	away	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	coverlet	coverlet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
36	only	only	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	protection	protection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
38	against	against	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
42	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** *in a quote* | past · progressive | daughter |  |  | bed |  | in a house; in that narrow street | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past | daughter |  |  |  |  | unto death; sick *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **come up** *in a quote* | past | the cruel landlord | tore |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **protect** *in a quote* |  | daughter |  |  |  |  | against the cold | nom protection «act transitive»: poss=agent against=obl |

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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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