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title: After an hour had passed, they told Rudy that it was all over, and h… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: After an hour had passed, they told Rudy that it was all over, and he might go to sleep; and, fatigued with his long walk, he readily slept at the word of command. Who acts: hour, asunder, roaring, Rudy. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, II. the Journey to the
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 60

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After an hour had passed, they told Rudy that it was all over, and he might go to sleep; and, fatigued with his long walk, he readily slept at the word of command.

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**Who acts:** hour, asunder, roaring, Rudy · **What happens:** pass, tell, be, go, fatigue, sleep · **To what, where:** Rudy, sleep, word, command · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hour, asunder, roaring, Rudy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:4052`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:53:60
# text = After an hour had passed, they told Rudy that it was all over, and he might go to sleep; and, fatigued with his long walk, he readily slept at the word of command.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	iobj	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	all	all	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	over	over	ADV	RB	_	8	ccomp	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	fatigued	fatigue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	advcl	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	readily	readily	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
34	at	at	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past · perfect | a hour |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | asunder |  | Rudy |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent rudy=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** | past | roaring |  |  |  |  | all, over *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | might | Rudy |  |  | sleep |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **fatigue** | participle | Rudy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Rudy's long walk | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **sleep** | past | Rudy |  |  | the word of command |  | readily *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **walk** |  | Rudy |  |  |  |  |  | nom walk «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **word** |  |  | command |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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