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title: Everything invited to slumber, everything had a charming look of rep… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Everything invited to slumber, everything had a charming look of repose; and so the nurse had discovered, for she slept; and well she might sleep, while everything around her told of happiness and blessing. Who acts: everything, lamp. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. A
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Pearl, sentence 5

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Everything invited to slumber, everything had a charming look of repose; and so the nurse had discovered, for she slept; and well she might sleep, while everything around her told of happiness and blessing.

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**Who acts:** everything, lamp · **What happens:** invite, slumber, have, discover, sleep, tell · **To what, where:** Everything, nurse · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Pearl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everything, lamp), 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:pg27200:70:5
# text = Everything invited to slumber, everything had a charming look of repose; and so the nurse had discovered, for she slept; and well she might sleep, while everything around her told of happiness and blessing.
1	Everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	7	obj	_	_
2	invited	invite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	slumber	slumber	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	7	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	charming	charming	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	repose	repose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	discovered	discover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	advmod	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	29	obl	_	_
32	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	31	fixed	_	_
33	around	around	ADP	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
34	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	blessing	blessing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **invite** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn promote-102 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **slumber** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | past | everything | Everything |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **discover** | past · perfect · passive |  | the nurse |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 5 | **sleep** | past | lamp |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **sleep** | might | lamp |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | of happiness and blessing | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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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