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title: So he put the geography book under his pillow, for he had heard that… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: So he put the geography book under his pillow, for he had heard that this was a great help towards learning a lesson, but not always to be depended upon. Who acts: Tuk, this, great help. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tuk, with its dependency tree an
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tuk, sentence 12

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So he put the geography book under his pillow, for he had heard that this was a great help towards learning a lesson, but not always to be depended upon.

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**Who acts:** Tuk, this, great help · **What happens:** put, hear, be, learn, not depend · **To what, where:** geography book, pillow, great help, lesson

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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, this, great help), 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:pg27200:80:12
# text = So he put the geography book under his pillow, for he had heard that this was a great help towards learning a lesson, but not always to be depended upon.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	geography	geography	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	under	under	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	pillow	pillow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
16	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
21	towards	towards	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	learning	learn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
28	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	31	advmod	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	depended	depend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
32	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | Tuk | the geography book |  | Tuk's pillow |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent book=Theme under pillow=Destination |
| 2 | **hear** | past · perfect | Tuk |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is a** | past | this | a great help |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **learn** | gerund | a great help *not said here* | a lesson |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=Topic |
| 5 | **not** **depend** | to-infinitive · passive | Tuk *not said here* |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING» |

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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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