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title: He still lay thinking and thinking, when all at once it seemed as if… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He still lay thinking and thinking, when all at once it seemed as if some one kissed him on his eyes and mouth. Who acts: Tuk, it, one. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tuk, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tuk, sentence 13

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He still lay thinking and thinking, when all at once it seemed as if some one kissed him on his eyes and mouth.

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**Who acts:** Tuk, it, one · **What happens:** lie, think, seem, kiss · **To what, where:** Tuk, eyes

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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, it, one), 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:pg27200:80:13
# text = He still lay thinking and thinking, when all at once it seemed as if some one kissed him on his eyes and mouth.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	still	still	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	advmod	_	_
10	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nsubj	_	_
18	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | Tuk |  |  |  | still |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | Tuk *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | Tuk *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **seem** | past | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **kiss** | past | some one | Tuk |  | Tuk's eyes and mouth |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-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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