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title: So Tuk ran across quickly, and helped her, but when he came back int… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: So Tuk ran across quickly, and helped her, but when he came back into the room it was quite dark, and there was not a word said about a light, so he was obliged to go to bed on his little truckle bedstead, and there he lay and thought of his geography lesson, and of Zealand, and of all the master ha
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tuk, sentence 10

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So Tuk ran across quickly, and helped her, but when he came back into the room it was quite dark, and there was not a word said about a light, so he was obliged to go to bed on his little truckle bedstead, and there he lay and thought of his geography lesson, and of Zealand, and of all the master had told him.

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**Who acts:** Tuk, room · **What happens:** run, help, come back, be, not be, say · **To what, where:** woman, room, dark word, Tuk, little truckle bedstead · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tuk, room), 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:pg27200:80:10
# text = So Tuk ran across quickly, and helped her, but when he came back into the room it was quite dark, and there was not a word said about a light, so he was obliged to go to bed on his little truckle bedstead, and there he lay and thought of his geography lesson, and of Zealand, and of all the master had told him.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Tuk	Tuk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	across	across	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	back	back	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	26	expl	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
30	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl	_	_
31	about	about	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	so	so	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	xcomp	_	_
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
43	on	on	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
44	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
45	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
46	truckle	truckle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
47	bedstead	bedstead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
50	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	52	expl	_	_
51	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
52	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	conj	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
56	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	58	nmod:poss	_	_
57	geography	geography	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	compound	_	_
58	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
60	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
61	of	of	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
62	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	70	punct	_	_
64	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	70	cc	_	_
65	of	of	ADP	IN	_	68	case	_	_
66	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	68	det:predet	_	_
67	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	68	det	_	_
68	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	70	obl	_	_
69	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	70	aux	_	_
70	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
71	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	70	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
72	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | Tuk |  |  |  |  | of Zealand; across, quickly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of zealand=Trajectory |
| 2 | **help** | past | Tuk *not said here* |  | woman |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **come back** | past | Tuk |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | room |  |  | the room |  | dark *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **is a** | past |  | a dark word |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | participle |  | a dark word *not said here* |  |  |  | about a light | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **oblige** | past · passive |  | Tuk |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result |
| 8 | **go** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | Tuk's little truckle bedstead |  | to bed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial\_Location |
| 9 | **lie** | past | Tuk |  |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Tuk *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of Tuk's geography lesson | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 11 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | Tuk *not said here* |  | Tuk |  |  | of all master | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |

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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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