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title: Do we not, in our dreams, show a wonderful dramatic talent? each of… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Do we not, in our dreams, show a wonderful dramatic talent? each of our acquaintance appears to us then in his own character, and with his own voice; no man could thus imitate them in his waking hours. Who acts: we, each, man, our. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Ande
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 70

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Do we not, in our dreams, show a wonderful dramatic talent? each of our acquaintance appears to us then in his own character, and with his own voice; no man could thus imitate them in his waking hours.

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**Who acts:** we, each, man, our · **What happens:** show, appear, imitate, dream, acquaint · **To what, where:** wonderful dramatic talent, us, character

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, each, man, our), 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:pg27200:42:70
# text = Do we not, in our dreams, show a wonderful dramatic talent? each of our acquaintance appears to us then in his own character, and with his own voice; no man could thus imitate them in his waking hours.
1	Do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	dreams	dream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	dramatic	dramatic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	talent	talent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	acquaintance	acquaintance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	appears	appear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
34	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	35	det	_	_
35	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
36	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	imitate	imitate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
39	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
42	waking	waking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present · do-support | we | a wonderful dramatic talent |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent talent=Recipient |
| 2 | **appear** | present | each |  | us |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **imitate** | could | no man | character |  |  | hour | thus *property* | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **dream** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **acquaint** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom acquaintance «cognition transitive»: poss=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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