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title: When, after a night at a ball, we drive home half asleep and half aw… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: When, after a night at a ball, we drive home half asleep and half awake, the melodies still sound plainly in our ears; we hear them, and could sing them all from memory. Who acts: we, melodies. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, with its depe
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 131

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When, after a night at a ball, we drive home half asleep and half awake, the melodies still sound plainly in our ears; we hear them, and could sing them all from memory.

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**Who acts:** we, melodies · **What happens:** drive, sound, hear, sing · **To what, where:** ears, melodies, memory

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, 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 (we, melodies), 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:pg27200:26:131
# text = When, after a night at a ball, we drive home half asleep and half awake, the melodies still sound plainly in our ears; we hear them, and could sing them all from memory.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	after	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	drive	drive	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
12	home	home	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	14	advmod	_	_
14	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	17	advmod	_	_
17	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	melodies	melody	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
21	still	still	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	sound	sound	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
23	plainly	plainly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
28	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	nmod:unmarked	_	_
37	from	from	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drive** | present | we |  |  |  | night | home *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sound** | present | the melodies |  |  | our ears | still | plainly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location |
| 3 | **hear** | present | we | melodies *= melody* |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | could | we *not said here* | melodies *= melody* |  | memory |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme |

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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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