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title: When he awoke, strengthened and restored, the sun shone brightly thr… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: When he awoke, strengthened and restored, the sun shone brightly through the window; but not one of his servants had returned--they all believed he was dead; only the nightingale still sat beside him, and sang. Who acts: emperor, sun, servants, nightingale. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christi
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 152

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When he awoke, strengthened and restored, the sun shone brightly through the window; but not one of his servants had returned--they all believed he was dead; only the nightingale still sat beside him, and sang.

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**Who acts:** emperor, sun, servants, nightingale · **What happens:** awake, strengthen, restore, shine, return, believe · **To what, where:** window, one · **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 (emperor, sun, servants, nightingale), 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:pg27200:125:152
# text = When he awoke, strengthened and restored, the sun shone brightly through the window; but not one of his servants had returned--they all believed he was dead; only the nightingale still sat beside him, and sang.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	awoke	awake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	strengthened	strengthen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	restored	restore	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	brightly	brightly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	through	through	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	advmod	_	_
28	believed	believe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
33	only	only	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
36	still	still	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
38	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	42	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **awake** | past | emperor |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **strengthen** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **restore** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **shine** | past | the sun |  |  | the window |  | brightly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through window=Location |
| 5 | **return** | past · perfect · passive |  | one of emperor's servants |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 6 | **believe** | past | servants *= servant* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **is** | past | emperor |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **sit** | past | the nightingale |  |  |  | still | beside emperor | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside he=Location |
| 9 | **sing** *speech: express* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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