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title: “You have had a good sleep while I have been sitting here, and argui… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “You have had a good sleep while I have been sitting here, and arguing with him whether it was a story or a fairy tale.” Who acts: You, mother, sleep. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 151

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“You have had a good sleep while I have been sitting here, and arguing with him whether it was a story or a fairy tale.”

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**Who acts:** You, mother, sleep · **What happens:** have, sit, argue, be · **To what, where:** good sleep, story

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, mother, sleep), 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:pg1597:17:151
# text = “You have had a good sleep while I have been sitting here, and arguing with him whether it was a story or a fairy tale.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	aux	_	_
12	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
13	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	arguing	argue	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	advcl	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present · perfect | You | a good sleep |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Patient |
| 2 | **sit** *in a quote* | present · perfect · progressive | man's mother *= mother* |  |  | here |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **argue** *speech: disagree* *in a quote* | gerund | man's mother *= mother* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with man | vn chit\_chat-37.6-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | sleep | a story or a fairy tale |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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