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title: He would draw the coverlet closer round him, pull his nightcap over… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He would draw the coverlet closer round him, pull his nightcap over his eyes, and try to turn his thoughts from trade, and from the labors of the day, to olden times. Who acts: coal. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, with its depen
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 51

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He would draw the coverlet closer round him, pull his nightcap over his eyes, and try to turn his thoughts from trade, and from the labors of the day, to olden times.

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**Who acts:** coal · **What happens:** draw, pull, try, turn, think · **To what, where:** coverlet, labors, nightcap, eyes, thoughts, trade

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (coal), 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:pg27200:128:51
# text = He would draw the coverlet closer round him, pull his nightcap over his eyes, and try to turn his thoughts from trade, and from the labors of the day, to olden times.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	draw	draw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	coverlet	coverlet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	closer	close	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
7	round	round	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	nightcap	nightcap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	labors	labor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	olden	olden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | would | coal | the coverlet |  | the labors of the day and olden times |  | close *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent coverlet=Theme from labor=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **pull** | infinitive | coal *not said here* | coal's nightcap |  | coal's eyes |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nightcap=Theme |
| 3 | **try** | infinitive | coal *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **turn** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | coal *not said here* | coal's thoughts |  | trade |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent thought=Theme from trade=Trajectory |
| 5 | **think** |  | coal |  |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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