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title: Then he awoke, and all the beautiful things vanished before his eyes… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he awoke, and all the beautiful things vanished before his eyes, his father lay dead on the bed, and he was all alone. Who acts: father. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 12

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Then he awoke, and all the beautiful things vanished before his eyes, his father lay dead on the bed, and he was all alone.

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**Who acts:** father · **What happens:** awake, vanish, lay, be · **To what, where:** beautiful things, bed

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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:pg27200:196:12
# text = Then he awoke, and all the beautiful things vanished before his eyes, his father lay dead on the bed, and he was all alone.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	awoke	awake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
10	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	before	before	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
18	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	all	all	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **awake** | past | father | all beautiful things |  |  | then |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **vanish** | participle |  | all beautiful things *not said here* |  |  | before father's eyes |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **lay** | present | father's father |  |  | the bed |  | dead *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on bed=Destination |
| 4 | **is** | past | father |  |  |  |  | all, alone *property* | 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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