--- title: Well, there he lay, and thought and thought, and all at once it was… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Well, there he lay, and thought and thought, and all at once it was just as if someone kissed his eyes and mouth: he slept, and yet he did not sleep; it was as though the old washerwoman gazed on him with her mild eyes and said, “It were a great sin if you were not to know your lesson tomorrow morni --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/25/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Andersen's Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/) / [The Dream of Little Tuk](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/25/) / 14 # Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 14 Well, there he lay, and thought and thought, and all at once it was just as if someone kissed his eyes and mouth: he slept, and yet he did not sleep; it was as though the old washerwoman gazed on him with her mild eyes and said, “It were a great sin if you were not to know your lesson tomorrow morning. **Who acts:** thought, lesson, you · **What happens:** lie, think, be, sleep, not sleep, say · **To what, where:** all, great sin, lesson · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, lesson, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg1597:25:14 # text = Well, there he lay, and thought and thought, and all at once it was just as if someone kissed his eyes and mouth: he slept, and yet he did not sleep; it was as though the old washerwoman gazed on him with her mild eyes and said, “It were a great sin if you were not to know your lesson tomorrow morning. 1 Well well INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 5 expl _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 lay lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 5 obl _ _ 14 at at SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 15 once once SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 18 just just ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 19 as as ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 20 if if SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 22 nsubj _ _ 22 kissed kiss VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 : : PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 slept sleep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 32 yet yet ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 34 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 36 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ; ; PUNCT : _ 45 punct _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj:outer _ _ 39 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 40 as as ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 41 though though SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 washerwoman washerwoman NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 45 gazed gaze VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 46 on on ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 obl _ _ 48 with with ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 49 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 51 nmod:poss _ _ 50 mild mild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 51 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 obl _ _ 52 and and CCONJ CC _ 53 cc _ _ 53 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 54 , , PUNCT , _ 60 punct _ _ 55 “ " PUNCT `` _ 60 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 56 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 60 nsubj _ _ 57 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 60 cop _ _ 58 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 60 det _ _ 59 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 60 amod _ _ 60 sin sin NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 ccomp _ _ 61 if if SCONJ IN _ 66 mark _ _ 62 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 66 nsubj _ _ 63 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 66 aux _ _ 64 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 66 advmod _ _ 65 to to PART TO _ 66 mark _ _ 66 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 60 advcl _ _ 67 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 68 nmod:poss _ _ 68 lesson lesson NOUN NN Number=Sing 66 obj _ _ 69 tomorrow tomorrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 70 compound _ _ 70 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 66 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 71 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie** | past | thought | all | | there | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | thought *not said here* | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | thought *not said here* | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | lesson | | | | | kiss *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **sleep** | past | thought | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **not** **sleep** | past · do-support | thought | | | | yet | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is** | past | lesson | | | | | on thought; with book's mild eyes; gaze *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | lesson *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | lesson | a great sin | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **not** **know** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | you | your lesson | | | morning | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer lesson=Stimulus | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/25/13/) - next →: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/25/15/) - ↑ back to [The Dream of Little Tuk](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/25/)