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title: Do you recollect that?" they asked one after another, thus bringing… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Do you recollect that?" they asked one after another, thus bringing to his remembrance circumstances that made the perspiration stand on his brow. Who acts: you, chamberlains, remembrance circumstances. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale, with i
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 123

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Do you recollect that?" they asked one after another, thus bringing to his remembrance circumstances that made the perspiration stand on his brow.

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**Who acts:** you, chamberlains, remembrance circumstances · **What happens:** recollect, ask, bring, make · **To what, where:** that, one, remembrance circumstances, perspiration stand, brow · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, chamberlains, remembrance circumstances), 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:pg27200:125:123
# text = Do you recollect that?" they asked one after another, thus bringing to his remembrance circumstances that made the perspiration stand on his brow.
1	Do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	recollect	recollect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	obj	_	_
10	after	after	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	remembrance	remembrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	perspiration	perspiration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	stand	stand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	brow	brow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recollect** | present · do-support | you | that |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | past | chamberlains *= chamberlain* | one |  |  | after another |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent one=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **bring** *in a quote* | gerund | chamberlains *= chamberlain* *not said here* |  |  | emperor's remembrance circumstances |  | thus *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to circumstance=Destination |
| 4 | **make** *in a quote* | past | emperor's remembrance circumstances | the perspiration stand |  | emperor's brow |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stand=Product |

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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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