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title: And little Tukey lay in his bed: it seemed to him as if he dreamed,… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And little Tukey lay in his bed: it seemed to him as if he dreamed, and yet as if he were not dreaming; however, somebody was close beside him. Who acts: little Tukey, it, Tukey, somebody. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk, with its dependency tree and
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 36

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And little Tukey lay in his bed: it seemed to him as if he dreamed, and yet as if he were not dreaming; however, somebody was close beside him.

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**Who acts:** little Tukey, it, Tukey, somebody · **What happens:** lie, seem, dream, not dream, be · **To what, where:** bed, Tukey

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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 (little Tukey, it, Tukey, somebody), 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:pg1597:25:36
# text = And little Tukey lay in his bed: it seemed to him as if he dreamed, and yet as if he were not dreaming; however, somebody was close beside him.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Tukey	Tukey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	dreamed	dream	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
19	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
21	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	dreaming	dream	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	however	however	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	somebody	somebody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	31	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
32	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | little Tukey |  |  | Tukey's bed |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location |
| 2 | **seem** | past | it |  | Tukey |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **dream** | past | Tukey |  |  |  |  |  | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **dream** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · progressive | Tukey |  |  |  | yet |  | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | past | somebody |  |  |  |  | beside Tukey; close, however *property* | 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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