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title: Indeed she was on the point of falling over in reality with the chai… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Indeed she was on the point of falling over in reality with the chair on which she sat; but she was so startled and alarmed that she could not remember what she had dreamed, only that it was something very dreadful. Who acts: Anne, point, sleeve. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 85

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Indeed she was on the point of falling over in reality with the chair on which she sat; but she was so startled and alarmed that she could not remember what she had dreamed, only that it was something very dreadful.

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**Who acts:** Anne, point, sleeve · **What happens:** be, fall over, sit, startle, alarm, not remember · **To what, where:** point, reality, chair, Anne, something · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, point, sleeve), 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:pg27200:5:85
# text = Indeed she was on the point of falling over in reality with the chair on which she sat; but she was so startled and alarmed that she could not remember what she had dreamed, only that it was something very dreadful.
1	Indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
9	over	over	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	reality	reality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obl	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	startled	startle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	alarmed	alarm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
32	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	35	obj	_	_
33	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	dreamed	dream	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	only	only	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
38	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
41	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	35	conj	_	_
42	very	very	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Anne |  |  | the point |  | indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fall over** | gerund | the point *not said here* |  |  | reality |  | with the chair; over *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in reality=Location |
| 3 | **sit** | past | Anne |  |  | the chair |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=Location |
| 4 | **startle** | past · passive |  | Anne |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 5 | **alarm** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **not** **remember** | could | Anne |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 7 | **dream** | past · perfect | Anne |  |  |  |  |  | vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
| 8 | **is a** | past | sleeve | something |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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