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title: Sleep sweetly, the clouds will drop snow upon you, which will be qui… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Sleep sweetly, the clouds will drop snow upon you, which will be quite a cover-lid, warm and sheltering to your feet. Who acts: you, clouds. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 34

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Sleep sweetly, the clouds will drop snow upon you, which will be quite a cover-lid, warm and sheltering to your feet.

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**Who acts:** you, clouds · **What happens:** sleep, drop, be, shelter · **To what, where:** snow, cover lid

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. 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 (you, clouds), 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:pg27200:69:34
# text = Sleep sweetly, the clouds will drop snow upon you, which will be quite a cover-lid, warm and sheltering to your feet.
1	Sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	drop	drop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
8	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
15	quite	quite	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	19	det:predet	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	cover	cover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	lid	lid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	sheltering	shelter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sweetly *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **drop** | future | the clouds | snow |  |  |  | upon you | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent snow=Theme upon you=Destination |
| 3 | **is a** | future |  | quite cover lid |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **shelter** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to your feet | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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