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title: “As if I lay in Soroe,” said Tuk, awaking. — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “As if I lay in Soroe,” said Tuk, awaking. Who acts: Tuk. 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 87

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“As if I lay in Soroe,” said Tuk, awaking.

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**Who acts:** Tuk · **What happens:** lay, say, awake · **To what, where:** Soroe · **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 (Tuk), 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:pg1597:25:87
# text = “As if I lay in Soroe,” said Tuk, awaking.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Soroe	Soroe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Tuk	Tuk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	awaking	awake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** *in a quote* | present | Tuk |  |  | Soroe |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in soroe=Destination |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Tuk |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **awake** | gerund | Tuk *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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