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title: When little Knud heard this dream, it seemed as if he could not bear… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: When little Knud heard this dream, it seemed as if he could not bear the mocking and jeering again; how could he dare to go into the water now, after Joanna's dream! Who acts: little Knud, it, boy, Joanna. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tre
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 11

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When little Knud heard this dream, it seemed as if he could not bear the mocking and jeering again; how could he dare to go into the water now, after Joanna's dream!

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**Who acts:** little Knud, it, boy, Joanna · **What happens:** hear, seem, not bear, jeer, dare, go · **To what, where:** dream, mocking, water

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, 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 (little Knud, it, boy, Joanna), 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:pg27200:202:11
# text = When little Knud heard this dream, it seemed as if he could not bear the mocking and jeering again; how could he dare to go into the water now, after Joanna's dream!
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Knud	Knud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	mocking	mocking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	jeering	jeer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
20	again	again	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
22	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
23	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	dare	dare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	after	after	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	Joanna	Joanna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	's	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | little Knud | this dream |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer dream=Stimulus |
| 2 | **seem** | past | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **not** **bear** *a condition, not said to happen* | could | boy | the mocking |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mocking=Patient |
| 4 | **jeer** | gerund | boy *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **dare** | could | boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **go** | to-infinitive | boy *not said here* |  |  | the water | after Joanna's dream; now |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into water=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **dream** |  | Joanna |  |  |  |  |  | nom dream «cognition transitive»: 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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