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title: Alas, poor doll! it began to grow dark already; and suppose night we… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Alas, poor doll! it began to grow dark already; and suppose night were to come on completely! Who acts: poor doll. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-first Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-first Evening, sentence 9

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Alas, poor doll! it began to grow dark already; and suppose night were to come on completely!

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**Who acts:** poor doll · **What happens:** begin, grow, suppose, come · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-first Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor doll), 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:pg27200:112:9
# text = Alas, poor doll! it began to grow dark already; and suppose night were to come on completely!
1	Alas	alas	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	doll	doll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	already	already	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	suppose	suppose	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
15	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | poor doll |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **grow** | to-infinitive | poor doll *not said here* |  |  |  |  | dark *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **suppose** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | past |  |  |  |  | night |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on completely=Location |

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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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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