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title: And as she sung, the emperor fell into a sweet sleep; and how mild a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And as she sung, the emperor fell into a sweet sleep; and how mild and refreshing that slumber was! Who acts: sleep, emperor. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 151

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And as she sung, the emperor fell into a sweet sleep; and how mild and refreshing that slumber was!

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**Who acts:** sleep, emperor · **What happens:** sing, fall, be, refresh · **To what, where:** sweet sleep, slumber

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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 (sleep, emperor), 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:pg27200:125:151
# text = And as she sung, the emperor fell into a sweet sleep; and how mild and refreshing that slumber was!
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sung	sing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
16	mild	mild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	refreshing	refresh	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
19	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	slumber	slumber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | participle | sleep |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 2 | **fall** | past | the emperor |  |  |  |  | into a sweet sleep *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into sleep=Result |
| 3 | **is** | past | the emperor *not said here* |  |  |  |  | mild *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **refresh** | gerund | the emperor *not said here* | that slumber |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus slumber=Experiencer |

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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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