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title: “They come to fetch the thoughts of the high personages to the chase… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “They come to fetch the thoughts of the high personages to the chase; 'tis well, for now you can observe them in bed all the better. Who acts: dreams, you. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 97

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“They come to fetch the thoughts of the high personages to the chase; 'tis well, for now you can observe them in bed all the better.

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**Who acts:** dreams, you · **What happens:** come, fetch, observe, think · **To what, where:** thoughts, dreams, bed, high personages

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dreams, you), 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:pg1597:13:97
# text = “They come to fetch the thoughts of the high personages to the chase; 'tis well, for now you can observe them in bed all the better.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	personages	personage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	chase	chase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	tis	tis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
18	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	observe	observe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	30	det:predet	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | present | dreams *= dream* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fetch** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | dreams *= dream* *not said here* | the thoughts of the high personages |  |  |  | to the chase | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Theme |
| 3 | **observe** *in a quote* | can | you | dreams *= dream* |  | bed | now |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
| 4 | **think** *in a quote* |  |  | the high personages |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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