--- title: Thus sounded the old Christmas carol, and every one on board the shi… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Thus sounded the old Christmas carol, and every one on board the ship felt his thoughts elevated, through the song and the prayer, even as the old tree had felt lifted up in its last, its beautiful dream on that Christmas morn. Who acts: one, thoughts, old tree, Christ. 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C. Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, thoughts, old tree, Christ), 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:pg27200:69:106 # text = Thus sounded the old Christmas carol, and every one on board the ship felt his thoughts elevated, through the song and the prayer, even as the old tree had felt lifted up in its last, its beautiful dream on that Christmas morn. 1 Thus thus ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 sounded sound VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 Christmas Christmas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 carol carol NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 9 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 10 det _ _ 10 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 board board ADP IN _ 11 fixed _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 15 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 thoughts thought NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 elevated elevate VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 through through ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 prayer prayer NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 27 even even ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 28 as as SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 32 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 felt feel VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 15 conj _ _ 34 lifted lift VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 xcomp _ _ 35 up up ADP RP _ 34 compound:prt _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 41 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 dream dream NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 advcl _ _ 43 on on ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 44 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 46 det _ _ 45 Christmas Christmas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 compound _ _ 46 morn morn NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sound** | past | | the old Christmas carol | | | | thus *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location carol=Theme | | 2 | **feel** | past | every one on the ship | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **elevate** | past | Christ's thoughts | the song and the prayer | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Theme | | 4 | **feel** | past · perfect | the old tree | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **lift up** | participle | the old tree *not said here* | | | song's last | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in last=Destination | | 6 | **think** | | Christ | | | | | | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | | 7 | **dream** | | song | | | that Christmas morn | | | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent on=place | 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. 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