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title: “It is wet, it is wet; there is such a pleasant deathlike stillness… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “It is wet, it is wet; there is such a pleasant deathlike stillness in Sorbe!” Who acts: head, pleasant deathlike stillness. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 63

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“It is wet, it is wet; there is such a pleasant deathlike stillness in Sorbe!”

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**Who acts:** head, pleasant deathlike stillness · **What happens:** be

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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 (head, pleasant deathlike stillness), 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:pg1597:25:63
# text = “It is wet, it is wet; there is such a pleasant deathlike stillness in Sorbe!”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
11	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	16	det:predet	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	deathlike	deathlike	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	stillness	stillness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Sorbe	Sorbe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | head |  |  |  |  | wet *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | head |  |  |  |  | wet *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** *in a quote* | present | such pleasant deathlike stillness in Sorbe |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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