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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 6

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Tuk ran quickly to the window, and read so eagerly that he pretty nearly read his eyes out; for it got darker and darker, but his mother had no money to buy a candle.

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**Who acts:** Tuk, Charles, window, mother, money · **What happens:** run, read, read out, get, have, buy · **To what, where:** eyes, money, candle

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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 (Tuk, Charles, window, mother), 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:pg1597:25:6
# text = Tuk ran quickly to the window, and read so eagerly that he pretty nearly read his eyes out; for it got darker and darker, but his mother had no money to buy a candle.
1	Tuk	Tuk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	read	read	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	read	read	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	out	out	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
24	darker	dark	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	xcomp	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	darker	dark	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
32	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	33	det	_	_
33	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	candle	candle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | Tuk |  |  |  |  | to the window *result*; quickly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to window=Result |
| 2 | **read** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | eagerly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **read out** | past | Charles | Charles's eyes |  |  |  | nearly, out, pretty *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Topic |
| 4 | **get** | past | window |  |  |  |  | dark *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **have** | past | Charles's mother | no money |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **buy** | to-infinitive | no money *not said here* | a candle |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent candle=Theme |

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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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