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title: Ah! yes, that was little Tuk: in reality his name was not Tuk, but t… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Ah! yes, that was little Tuk: in reality his name was not Tuk, but that was what he called himself before he could speak plain: he meant it for Charles, and it is all well enough if one does but know it. Who acts: that, name, he, his. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dre
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 1

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Ah! yes, that was little Tuk: in reality his name was not Tuk, but that was what he called himself before he could speak plain: he meant it for Charles, and it is all well enough if one does but know it.

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**Who acts:** that, name, he, his · **What happens:** be, not be, call, speak, mean, know · **To what, where:** little Tuk, Tuk, reality, himself, plain, name · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, name, he, his), 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:pg1597:25:1
# text = Ah! yes, that was little Tuk: in reality his name was not Tuk, but that was what he called himself before he could speak plain: he meant it for Charles, and it is all well enough if one does but know it.
1	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	1	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Tuk	Tuk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	reality	reality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	Tuk	Tuk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	appos	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	23	obj	_	_
25	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
29	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
39	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
40	all	all	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	47	advmod	_	_
42	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
43	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
44	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
46	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	conj	_	_
48	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | that | little Tuk and Tuk |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | past | his name | Tuk |  | reality |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past | that | little Tuk and Tuk |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **call** | past | he | himself *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient |
| 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | could | he | plain |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **mean** | past | he | plain |  |  |  | for Charles | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot it=Theme for charles=Attribute |
| 7 | **is** | present | name |  |  |  |  | all, enough, well *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **know** | present · do-support | he *not said here* | name |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 9 | **name** |  | his *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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:** «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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