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title: The root was torn from the ground just at the moment when in his dre… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The root was torn from the ground just at the moment when in his dream he fancied it was being loosened from the earth. Who acts: cracking. 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 cl
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 93

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The root was torn from the ground just at the moment when in his dream he fancied it was being loosened from the earth.

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**Who acts:** cracking · **What happens:** tear, fancy, loosen, dream · **To what, where:** root, dream, ground

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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 (cracking), 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:pg27200:69:93
# text = The root was torn from the ground just at the moment when in his dream he fancied it was being loosened from the earth.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	torn	tear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	just	just	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	fancied	fancy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
20	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	loosened	loosen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tear** | past · passive |  | the root |  |  | moment | from the ground | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient from ground=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **fancy** | past | cracking | cracking's dream *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dream=Stimulus |
| 3 | **loosen** | past · passive |  | ground |  | cracking's dream |  | from the earth | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **dream** |  | cracking |  |  |  |  |  | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=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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