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description: The Dryad in the tree, who was the Story-mother herself, had here told him the "Dream of the Old Oak Tree." Who acts: tree. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 47

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The Dryad in the tree, who was the Story-mother herself, had here told him the "Dream of the Old Oak Tree."

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**Who acts:** tree · **What happens:** be, tell, dream · **To what, where:** Story mother, Dryad, man, Old Oak Tree · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tree), 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:pg27200:211:47
# text = The Dryad in the tree, who was the Story-mother herself, had here told him the "Dream of the Old Oak Tree."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Dryad	Dryad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	Story	Story	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
13	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
17	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	iobj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	Oak	Oak	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Tree	Tree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the tree | the Story mother |  |  |  | Dryad *nmod:unmarked* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive |  | the Dryad in the tree | man | here |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **dream** *in a quote* |  |  | the Old Oak Tree |  |  |  |  | nom dream «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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