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title: The pastor raised himself in bed and stretched his arms towards her,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The pastor raised himself in bed and stretched his arms towards her, saying, "Not even you can find eternal rest! Who acts: pastor, you. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 32

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The pastor raised himself in bed and stretched his arms towards her, saying, "Not even you can find eternal rest!

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**Who acts:** pastor, you · **What happens:** raise, stretch, say, not find · **To what, where:** pastor, bed, arms, eternal rest · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pastor, you), 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:pg27200:2:32
# text = The pastor raised himself in bed and stretched his arms towards her, saying, "Not even you can find eternal rest!
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pastor	pastor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	raised	raise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
18	even	even	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
22	eternal	eternal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **raise** | past | the pastor | pastor |  | bed |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in bed=Destination |
| 2 | **stretch** | past | the pastor *not said here* | pastor's arms |  |  |  | towards wife | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent arm=Patient towards she=Recipient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: express* | gerund | the pastor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **find** *in a quote* | can | you | eternal rest |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Topic |

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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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