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title: It was just about holy Christmas time that the tree dreamed a dream. — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It was just about holy Christmas time that the tree dreamed a dream. Who acts: oak, tree. 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 clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 45

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It was just about holy Christmas time that the tree dreamed a dream.

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**Who acts:** oak, tree · **What happens:** be, dream · **To what, where:** holy Christmas time, dream

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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 (oak, tree), 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:pg27200:69:45
# text = It was just about holy Christmas time that the tree dreamed a dream.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	dreamed	dream	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | oak | holy Christmas time |  |  |  | about *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **dream** | past | the tree | a dream |  |  |  |  | vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Topic |

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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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