--- title: "Am I to hear any more stories?" asked little Hjalmar, as soon as Ol… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "Am I to hear any more stories?" asked little Hjalmar, as soon as Ole-Luk-Oie had sent him to sleep. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/134/162/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/134/) / 162 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 162 "Am I to hear any more stories?" asked little Hjalmar, as soon as Ole-Luk-Oie had sent him to sleep. **Who acts:** I · **What happens:** hear, ask, send, sleep · **To what, where:** more stories, little Hjalmar, Luk · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:134:162 # text = "Am I to hear any more stories?" asked little Hjalmar, as soon as Ole-Luk-Oie had sent him to sleep. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 ccomp _ _ 6 any any ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 8 amod _ _ 8 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 11 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 Hjalmar Hjalmar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 as as ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 11 advmod _ _ 17 as as SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 18 Ole ole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 mark _ SpaceAfter=No 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 Luk Luk PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 Oie Oie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 flat _ _ 23 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 sent send VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 advcl _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** *not said to happen, in a quote* | present | I | more stories | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | | | little Hjalmar | | | soon *property* | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent hjalmar=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **send** | past · perfect · passive | | Luk | | | | | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination he=Theme | | 4 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 161](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/134/161/) - next →: [sentence 163](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/134/163/) - ↑ back to [Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/134/)