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title: It was just as if they had all taken something to make them sleepy w… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It was just as if they had all taken something to make them sleepy while they were in the palace, for they did not recover themselves nor speak till they got back again into the street. Who acts: footmen. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Prince
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 34

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It was just as if they had all taken something to make them sleepy while they were in the palace, for they did not recover themselves nor speak till they got back again into the street.

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**Who acts:** footmen · **What happens:** take, make, be, not recover, speak, get back · **To what, where:** It, footmen, palace, street · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (footmen), 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:pg27200:173:34
# text = It was just as if they had all taken something to make them sleepy while they were in the palace, for they did not recover themselves nor speak till they got back again into the street.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	all	all	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
15	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	recover	recover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
27	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	26	obj	_	_
28	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	29	cc	_	_
29	speak	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
30	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	ccomp	_	_
33	back	back	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	again	again	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
35	into	into	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past · perfect · passive |  | It |  |  |  | all *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme something=Destination |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | footmen *= footman* |  |  |  | sleepy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |
| 3 | **is** | past | footmen *= footman* |  |  | the palace |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **recover** | past · do-support | footmen *= footman* | footmen *= footman* |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme |
| 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | footmen *= footman* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **get back** | past | footmen *= footman* |  |  | the street | again |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into street=Destination |

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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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