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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 88

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It was bright day, and he was now quite unable to call to mind his dream; that, however, was not at all necessary, for one may not know what the future will bring.

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**Who acts:** name, Soroe, one, future · **What happens:** be, call, mind, not be, not know, bring · **To what, where:** bright day, dream, all · **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 (name, Soroe, one, future), 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:pg1597:25:88
# text = It was bright day, and he was now quite unable to call to mind his dream; that, however, was not at all necessary, for one may not know what the future will bring.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
10	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	unable	unable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	acl:relcl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	mind	mind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
21	however	however	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	obl	_	_
27	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
30	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nsubj	_	_
31	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
34	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	38	obj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	future	future	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
37	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | name | bright day |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | Soroe | bright day *not said here* |  |  | now | unable *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **call** | to-infinitive | Soroe *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **mind** | to-infinitive | Soroe *not said here* | Soroe's dream |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **is** | past |  |  |  | all |  | however, necessary *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **know** | may | one |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 7 | **bring** | future | the future |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
| 8 | **dream** |  | Soroe |  |  |  |  |  | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=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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