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title: Was he, perhaps, dreaming of working in the little flower garden beh… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Was he, perhaps, dreaming of working in the little flower garden behind the high street wall? Who acts: Hong. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening, sentence 13

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Was he, perhaps, dreaming of working in the little flower garden behind the high street wall?

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**Who acts:** Hong · **What happens:** be, dream, work · **To what, where:** Hong

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hong), 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:pg27200:117:13
# text = Was he, perhaps, dreaming of working in the little flower garden behind the high street wall?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	dreaming	dream	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | Hong |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **dream** | gerund | Hong |  |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **work** | gerund | Hong *not said here* |  |  |  |  | behind the high street wall; in the little flower garden | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in garden=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:** «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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