--- title: These were the sights and sounds without; within there were visions,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: These were the sights and sounds without; within there were visions, for Babette had a wonderful dream. Who acts: These, visions, Babette. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIV. Night Visions, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/65/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [XIV. Night Visions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/65/) / 12 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIV. Night Visions, sentence 12 These were the sights and sounds without; within there were visions, for Babette had a wonderful dream. **Who acts:** These, visions, Babette · **What happens:** be, have · **To what, where:** sights, wonderful dream This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIV. Night Visions. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (These, visions, Babette), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:65:12 # text = These were the sights and sounds without; within there were visions, for Babette had a wonderful dream. 1 These this PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 4 nsubj _ _ 2 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 sights sight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 sounds sound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 7 without without SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 9 within within ADP IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 11 expl _ _ 11 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 12 visions vision NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 Babette Babette PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 wonderful wonderful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 dream dream NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | These | the sights and sounds | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | past | visions | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **have** | past | Babette | a wonderful dream | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/65/11/) - next →: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/65/13/) - ↑ back to [XIV. Night Visions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/65/)