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title: "All night long I could not sleep; and the next evening when I gave… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "All night long I could not sleep; and the next evening when I gave another performance and the lecturer was present, I was in one of my best moods. Who acts: man, lecturer. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, with its dependency tree and th
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 16

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"All night long I could not sleep; and the next evening when I gave another performance and the lecturer was present, I was in one of my best moods.

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**Who acts:** man, lecturer · **What happens:** not sleep, give, be · **To what, where:** performance

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Puppet-show Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, lecturer), 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:pg27200:152:16
# text = "All night long I could not sleep; and the next evening when I gave another performance and the lecturer was present, I was in one of my best moods.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	performance	performance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	lecturer	lecturer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	32	amod	_	_
32	moods	mood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **sleep** *in a quote* | could | man |  |  |  | evening | long *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **give** *in a quote* | past | man | another performance |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent performance=Theme |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the lecturer |  |  |  |  | present *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | past | man |  |  |  |  | in one; of my best moods | tree rules |

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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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