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title: As soon as Hjalmar was in bed, Ole-Luk-Oie touched, with his little… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as Hjalmar was in bed, Ole-Luk-Oie touched, with his little magic wand, all the furniture in the room, which immediately began to chatter, and each article only talked of itself. Who acts: Hjalmar, Ole, furniture, article. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Ander
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 33

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As soon as Hjalmar was in bed, Ole-Luk-Oie touched, with his little magic wand, all the furniture in the room, which immediately began to chatter, and each article only talked of itself.

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**Who acts:** Hjalmar, Ole, furniture, article · **What happens:** be, touch, begin, chatter, talk · **To what, where:** little magic wand

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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 (Hjalmar, Ole, furniture, article), 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:pg27200:134:33
# text = As soon as Hjalmar was in bed, Ole-Luk-Oie touched, with his little magic wand, all the furniture in the room, which immediately began to chatter, and each article only talked of itself.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	Hjalmar	Hjalmar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	Ole	Ole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Luk	Luk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Oie	Oie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
14	touched	touch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
18	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	wand	wand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	24	det:predet	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	furniture	furniture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
30	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	chatter	chatter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
36	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	37	det	_	_
37	article	article	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
38	only	only	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	talked	talk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Hjalmar |  |  |  |  | as bed | tree rules |
| 2 | **touch** | past | Ole and Luk and Oie | Ole's little magic wand and all furniture in the room |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wand=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **begin** | past | all furniture in the room |  |  |  |  | immediately *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **chatter** | to-infinitive | all furniture in the room *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **talk** | past | each article |  |  |  |  | of article | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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