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title: And the father dreamt that the war was over, that the soldiers had r… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And the father dreamt that the war was over, that the soldiers had returned home, and that Peter wore a silver cross on his breast. Who acts: father, war, soldiers, Peter. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 84

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And the father dreamt that the war was over, that the soldiers had returned home, and that Peter wore a silver cross on his breast.

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**Who acts:** father, war, soldiers, Peter · **What happens:** dreamt, be, return, wear · **To what, where:** silver cross, breast

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, war, soldiers, Peter), 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:pg27200:39:84
# text = And the father dreamt that the war was over, that the soldiers had returned home, and that Peter wore a silver cross on his breast.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	dreamt	dreamt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	over	over	ADV	RB	_	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
16	home	home	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	cross	cross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dreamt** | past | the father |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | the war |  |  |  |  | over *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **return** | past · perfect | the soldiers |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **wear** | past | Peter | a silver cross |  | soldier's breast |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent cross=Source |

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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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