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title: He was now to go to bed; that was an old turn-up bedstead; in it he… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He was now to go to bed; that was an old turn-up bedstead; in it he lay and thought about his geography lesson, and of Zealand, and of all that his master had told him. Who acts: thought, that. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk, with its dependency tre
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 11

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He was now to go to bed; that was an old turn-up bedstead; in it he lay and thought about his geography lesson, and of Zealand, and of all that his master had told him.

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**Who acts:** thought, that · **What happens:** be, lie, think, tell · **To what, where:** old turn bedstead, bedstead, that, thought · **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 (thought, that), 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:pg1597:25:11
# text = He was now to go to bed; that was an old turn-up bedstead; in it he lay and thought about his geography lesson, and of Zealand, and of all that his master had told him.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
12	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
13	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
16	bedstead	bedstead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
24	about	about	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	geography	geography	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	40	obl	_	_
36	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	40	nsubj:pass	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj:pass	_	_
39	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	_
41	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | thought |  |  |  | now | to bed; go *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | that | a old turn bedstead |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lie** | past | thought |  |  | bedstead |  | of Zealand | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in it=Location |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | thought *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about thought's geography lesson | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about lesson=Topic |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive |  | that | thought |  |  | of all | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic |

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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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