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title: Each dreamt that he found it, and that, as he rode back on his swift… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 67

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Each dreamt that he found it, and that, as he rode back on his swift horse, in the morning dawn, over the velvety green meadows, to his home in the castle of his father, that the stone gleamed from his forehead like a beaming light; and threw such a bright radiance upon the pages of the Book of Truth that every word was illuminated which spoke of the life beyond the grave.

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**Who acts:** Each, eldest, stone, pages · **What happens:** dreamt, find, ride back, gleam, throw, illuminate · **To what, where:** that, stone, velvety green meadows, forehead, bright radiance, pages · **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 (Each, eldest, stone, pages), 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:pg27200:143:67
# text = Each dreamt that he found it, and that, as he rode back on his swift horse, in the morning dawn, over the velvety green meadows, to his home in the castle of his father, that the stone gleamed from his forehead like a beaming light; and threw such a bright radiance upon the pages of the Book of Truth that every word was illuminated which spoke of the life beyond the grave.
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	nsubj	_	_
2	dreamt	dreamt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	swift	swift	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	over	over	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	velvety	velvety	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
44	gleamed	gleam	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
45	from	from	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	forehead	forehead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
48	like	like	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	beaming	beaming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	compound	_	_
51	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	54	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
55	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	58	det:predet	_	_
56	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
57	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	radiance	radiance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obj	_	_
59	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	pages	page	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	obl	_	_
62	of	of	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
63	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
64	Book	Book	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	61	nmod	_	_
65	of	of	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
66	Truth	Truth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	64	nmod	_	_
67	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	71	obj	_	_
68	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	69	det	_	_
69	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	71	nsubj:pass	_	_
70	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	71	aux:pass	_	_
71	illuminated	illuminate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	61	acl:relcl	_	_
72	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	73	nsubj	_	_
73	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	61	acl:relcl	_	_
74	of	of	ADP	IN	_	76	case	_	_
75	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	76	det	_	_
76	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	73	obl	_	_
77	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	79	case	_	_
78	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	79	det	_	_
79	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	73	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
80	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dreamt** | past | Each | that |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | past | eldest *= eld* | stone |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 3 | **ride back** | past | eldest *= eld* |  |  | the velvety green meadows | dawn | on eldest's swift horse; to eldest's home; in the castle of eldest's father | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over meadow=Trajectory |
| 4 | **gleam** | past | the stone |  |  | eldest's forehead |  | like a beaming light | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **throw** | past |  | such bright radiance |  | the pages of the Book of Truth |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent radiance=Theme upon page=Destination |
| 6 | **illuminate** | past · passive |  | every word |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | the pages of the Book of Truth |  |  |  |  | of the life; beyond the grave | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **page** |  |  | the Book of Truth |  |  |  |  | nom page «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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