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title: “Then you will speak well and wisely, little Tukey; and when at last… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Then you will speak well and wisely, little Tukey; and when at last you sink into your grave, you shall sleep as quietly--” Who acts: you. 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 86

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“Then you will speak well and wisely, little Tukey; and when at last you sink into your grave, you shall sleep as quietly--”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** speak, sink, sleep · **To what, where:** little Tukey, last · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you), 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:pg1597:25:86
# text = “Then you will speak well and wisely, little Tukey; and when at last you sink into your grave, you shall sleep as quietly--”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	wisely	wisely	ADV	RB	_	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Tukey	Tukey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
14	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	18	mark	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obl	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	sink	sink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | future | you | little Tukey |  |  | then | well *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sink** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  | last |  | into your grave | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **sleep** *in a quote* | shall | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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