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title: "They are only dreams," said the crow, "they are coming to fetch the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "They are only dreams," said the crow, "they are coming to fetch the thoughts of the great people out hunting." Who acts: gentlemen, dreams. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 85

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"They are only dreams," said the crow, "they are coming to fetch the thoughts of the great people out hunting."

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**Who acts:** gentlemen, dreams · **What happens:** be, say, come, fetch out, hunt, think · **To what, where:** dreams, crow, thoughts, great people · **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 (gentlemen, dreams), 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:pg27200:173:85
# text = "They are only dreams," said the crow, "they are coming to fetch the thoughts of the great people out hunting."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	dreams	dream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	ccomp	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
25	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | gentlemen *= gentleman* | dreams |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | dreams | the crow |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | present · progressive | gentlemen *= gentleman* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fetch out** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | gentlemen *= gentleman* *not said here* | the thoughts of the great people |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Theme |
| 5 | **hunt** *in a quote* | gerund | gentlemen *= gentleman* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **think** *in a quote* |  |  | the great people |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition 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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