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title: What an evening of happiness this had been; to sleep after it was im… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: What an evening of happiness this had been; to sleep after it was impossible, and Knud did not sleep. Who acts: evening, Knud. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 89

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What an evening of happiness this had been; to sleep after it was impossible, and Knud did not sleep.

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**Who acts:** evening, Knud · **What happens:** be, sleep, not sleep

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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 (evening, Knud), 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:pg27200:202:89
# text = What an evening of happiness this had been; to sleep after it was impossible, and Knud did not sleep.
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
12	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	expl	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	Knud	Knud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | participle | a evening of happiness |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sleep** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | impossible *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **sleep** | past · do-support | Knud |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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