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title: That evening John said his prayers and went to bed very early, and s… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: That evening John said his prayers and went to bed very early, and soon fell asleep calmly. Who acts: evening, John. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 30

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That evening John said his prayers and went to bed very early, and soon fell asleep calmly.

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**Who acts:** evening, John · **What happens:** say, go, fall, pray · **To what, where:** prayers, bed · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (evening, John), 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:pg27200:198:30
# text = That evening John said his prayers and went to bed very early, and soon fell asleep calmly.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	prayers	prayer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
16	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
18	calmly	calmly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | that evening | John's prayers |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prayer=Topic |
| 2 | **go** | past | that evening *not said here* |  |  | bed |  | early *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **fall** | past | that evening *not said here* |  |  |  |  | asleep, calmly, soon *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **pray** |  | John |  |  |  |  |  | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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