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title: How she wished she might dream of them; but it was strange that not… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: How she wished she might dream of them; but it was strange that not even in dreams could she be brought near to them. Who acts: page, key. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 184

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How she wished she might dream of them; but it was strange that not even in dreams could she be brought near to them.

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**Who acts:** page, key · **What happens:** wish, dream, be, bring · **To what, where:** dreams · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (page, key), 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:pg27200:143:184
# text = How she wished she might dream of them; but it was strange that not even in dreams could she be brought near to them.
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	dream	dream	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
16	even	even	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	dreams	dream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
23	near	near	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** | past | page |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **dream** | might | page |  |  |  |  | of jewel | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | key |  |  |  |  | strange *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **bring** | could · passive |  | dreams |  |  |  | near jewel | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=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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