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title: But at each "pop," which was a deep sigh, the tree was thinking of a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But at each "pop," which was a deep sigh, the tree was thinking of a summer day in the forest; and of Christmas evening, and of "Humpty Dumpty," the only story it had ever heard or knew how to relate, till at last it was consumed. Who acts: pop, tree, sigh. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christi
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 155

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But at each "pop," which was a deep sigh, the tree was thinking of a summer day in the forest; and of Christmas evening, and of "Humpty Dumpty," the only story it had ever heard or knew how to relate, till at last it was consumed.

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**Who acts:** pop, tree, sigh · **What happens:** be, think, hear, know, relate, consume · **To what, where:** deep sigh, only story, sigh, last · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pop, tree, sigh), 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:pg27200:33:155
# text = But at each "pop," which was a deep sigh, the tree was thinking of a summer day in the forest; and of Christmas evening, and of "Humpty Dumpty," the only story it had ever heard or knew how to relate, till at last it was consumed.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	pop	pop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	sigh	sigh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	Humpty	Humpty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
35	Dumpty	Dumpty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	40	punct	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	appos	_	_
41	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
42	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
43	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	44	advmod	_	_
44	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	40	acl:relcl	_	_
45	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	conj	_	_
47	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	49	advmod	_	_
48	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
49	relate	relate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
51	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	56	mark	_	_
52	at	at	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	obl	_	_
54	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj:pass	_	_
55	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	aux:pass	_	_
56	consumed	consume	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	49	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | each pop | a deep sigh |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past · progressive | the tree |  |  |  | day |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hear** | past · perfect | sigh | the only story *not said here* |  |  | ever |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus |
| 4 | **know** | past | sigh *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **relate** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **consume** | past · passive |  | sigh |  | last |  |  | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |

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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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