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title: All we hear or say in a dream that is fair and beautiful is like the… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: All we hear or say in a dream that is fair and beautiful is like the gold of the subterranean spirits; it is rich and splendid when it is given us, but viewed by daylight we find only withered leaves. Who acts: All, that, dream, we. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 81

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All we hear or say in a dream that is fair and beautiful is like the gold of the subterranean spirits; it is rich and splendid when it is given us, but viewed by daylight we find only withered leaves.

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**Who acts:** All, that, dream, we · **What happens:** hear, say, be, give, view, find · **To what, where:** dream, us, withered leaves · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (All, that, dream, we), 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:pg1597:8:81
# text = All we hear or say in a dream that is fair and beautiful is like the gold of the subterranean spirits; it is rich and splendid when it is given us, but viewed by daylight we find only withered leaves.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	nsubj	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	parataxis	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	subterranean	subterranean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
28	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	31	mark	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	parataxis	_	_
32	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	viewed	view	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
36	by	by	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	daylight	daylight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
38	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	acl:relcl	_	_
40	only	only	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	withered	wither	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	amod	_	_
42	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | present | All |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | All *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | that |  |  | a dream |  | fair *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | that *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | like the gold; of the subterranean spirits | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | present | dream |  |  |  |  | rich *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **be** |  | dream *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **give** | present · passive |  | dream | us |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient we=Theme |
| 9 | **view** | participle | All *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by daylight | vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **find** | present | we | withered leaves |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Topic |
| 11 | **wither** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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