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title: But she knew she had dreamt something frightful about the young Engl… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But she knew she had dreamt something frightful about the young Englishman, yet months had passed since she had seen him or even thought of him. Who acts: Babette. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIV. Night Visions, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIV. Night Visions, sentence 25

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But she knew she had dreamt something frightful about the young Englishman, yet months had passed since she had seen him or even thought of him.

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**Who acts:** Babette · **What happens:** know, dreamt, pass, see, think · **To what, where:** something, months, Englishman · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Babette), 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:pg27200:65:25
# text = But she knew she had dreamt something frightful about the young Englishman, yet months had passed since she had seen him or even thought of him.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	dreamt	dreamt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
7	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	obj	_	_
8	frightful	frightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Englishman	Englishman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
18	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	even	even	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | Babette |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **dreamt** | past · perfect | Babette | something |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pass** | past · perfect · passive |  | months |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |
| 4 | **see** | past · perfect | Babette | Englishman |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | participle | Babette *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of Englishman | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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