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title: But even in this sleep there came a dream, or whatever else it was:… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But even in this sleep there came a dream, or whatever else it was: his little sister Augusta, she with the blue eyes and the fair curling hair, was suddenly a tall, beautiful girl, and without having wings was yet able to fly; and she now flew over Zealand--over the green woods and the blue lakes. 
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 74

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But even in this sleep there came a dream, or whatever else it was: his little sister Augusta, she with the blue eyes and the fair curling hair, was suddenly a tall, beautiful girl, and without having wings was yet able to fly; and she now flew over Zealand--over the green woods and the blue lakes.

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**Who acts:** sleep, Augusta · **What happens:** come, be, have, fly · **To what, where:** dream, tall beautiful girl, wings, Zealand

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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 (sleep, Augusta), 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:pg1597:25:74
# text = But even in this sleep there came a dream, or whatever else it was: his little sister Augusta, she with the blue eyes and the fair curling hair, was suddenly a tall, beautiful girl, and without having wings was yet able to fly; and she now flew over Zealand--over the green woods and the blue lakes.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	even	even	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	parataxis	_	_
13	else	else	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
20	Augusta	Augusta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	curling	curling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
34	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
36	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
38	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
42	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
43	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	47	advcl	_	_
44	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obj	_	_
45	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
46	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
48	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
49	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
52	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
53	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	54	advmod	_	_
54	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
55	over	over	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	over	over	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
60	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	amod	_	_
61	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	conj	_	_
62	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	65	cc	_	_
63	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	65	det	_	_
64	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	65	amod	_	_
65	lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	61	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | this sleep | a dream |  | there |  | boy's little sister and the blue eyes and the fair curling hair *obl* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dream=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | a tall beautiful girl |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | gerund |  | wings |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | past | this sleep *not said here* |  |  |  | yet | able *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **fly** | to-infinitive | this sleep *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **fly** | past | Augusta |  |  | Zealand | now |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent over zealand=Location |

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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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