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title: Every dream proclaimed that one or the other of these valuables was… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Every dream proclaimed that one or the other of these valuables was lost; wherefore he started up as in a fever; and the first movement which his hand made, described a magic triangle from the right pocket to the left, and then up towards the bosom, to feel if he had them all safe or not. Who acts: 
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 69

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Every dream proclaimed that one or the other of these valuables was lost; wherefore he started up as in a fever; and the first movement which his hand made, described a magic triangle from the right pocket to the left, and then up towards the bosom, to feel if he had them all safe or not.

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**Who acts:** dream, hand, magazine · **What happens:** proclaim, lose, start up, make up, describe, feel · **To what, where:** one, first movement, magic triangle, right pocket, valuables

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dream, hand, magazine), 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:pg1597:9:69
# text = Every dream proclaimed that one or the other of these valuables was lost; wherefore he started up as in a fever; and the first movement which his hand made, described a magic triangle from the right pocket to the left, and then up towards the bosom, to feel if he had them all safe or not.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	proclaimed	proclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	valuables	valuable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	wherefore	wherefore	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	fever	fever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	27	amod	_	_
27	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	obj	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	described	describe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	triangle	triangle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
37	from	from	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	left	left	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
46	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	47	advmod	_	_
47	up	up	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	_
48	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	bosom	bosom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
52	to	to	PART	TO	_	53	mark	_	_
53	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	conj	_	_
54	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	56	mark	_	_
55	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
56	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	ccomp	_	_
57	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	obj	_	_
58	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	57	nmod:unmarked	_	_
59	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	xcomp	_	_
60	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
61	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	59	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **proclaim** | past | every dream |  |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **lose** | past · passive |  | one |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 3 | **start up** | past | dream |  |  |  |  | as a fever; wherefore *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **make up** | past | magazine's hand | the first movement |  |  |  | towards the bosom | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme which=Pivot |
| 5 | **describe** | past | magazine's hand *not said here* | a magic triangle |  | the right pocket to the left |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent triangle=Theme |
| 6 | **feel** | to-infinitive | magazine's hand *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 7 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | magazine | valuables *= valuable* |  |  |  | safe *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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