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title: Then she dreamed of something which she had never dreamed before; si… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she dreamed of something which she had never dreamed before; singularly enough she dreamed of her own child, who had wept and hungered in the laborer's hut, and had been knocked about in heat and in cold, and who was now lying in the depths of the sea, in a spot only known by God. Who acts: Ann
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 79

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Then she dreamed of something which she had never dreamed before; singularly enough she dreamed of her own child, who had wept and hungered in the laborer's hut, and had been knocked about in heat and in cold, and who was now lying in the depths of the sea, in a spot only known by God.

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**Who acts:** Anne, own child · **What happens:** dream, not dream, weep, hunger, knock, lie · **To what, where:** hut, depths, spot

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Anne, own child), 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:pg27200:5:79
# text = Then she dreamed of something which she had never dreamed before; singularly enough she dreamed of her own child, who had wept and hungered in the laborer's hut, and had been knocked about in heat and in cold, and who was now lying in the depths of the sea, in a spot only known by God.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dreamed	dream	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	obl	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	dreamed	dream	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	_
11	before	before	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	singularly	singularly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	dreamed	dream	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	wept	weep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	hungered	hunger	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	laborer	laborer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	's	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	knocked	knock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
37	about	about	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
45	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	48	nsubj	_	_
46	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
47	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	48	advmod	_	_
48	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	advcl	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	depths	depth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obl	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
56	in	in	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
59	only	only	ADV	RB	_	60	advmod	_	_
60	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	58	acl	_	_
61	by	by	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
62	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	60	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dream** | past | Anne |  |  |  | then | of something | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **dream** | past · perfect · passive |  |  |  |  |  | before *property* | vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **dream** | past | Anne |  |  |  |  | of Anne's own child; singularly *property* | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **weep** | past · perfect | Anne's own child |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **hunger** | participle | Anne's own child *not said here* |  |  | the laborer's hut |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **knock** | past · perfect · passive | Anne *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about heat | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: about heat=Location |
| 7 | **lie** | past · progressive |  |  |  | the depths of the sea | now | in a spot | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in depth=Location |
| 8 | **know** | participle |  | a spot *not said here* |  |  |  | by God | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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