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title: But now little Tuk was no longer in bed; all in a moment he found hi… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But now little Tuk was no longer in bed; all in a moment he found himself on horseback. Who acts: little Tuk, Tuk. 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 21

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But now little Tuk was no longer in bed; all in a moment he found himself on horseback.

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**Who acts:** little Tuk, Tuk · **What happens:** be, find · **To what, where:** bed, Tuk, horseback

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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 (little Tuk, Tuk), 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:pg27200:80:21
# text = But now little Tuk was no longer in bed; all in a moment he found himself on horseback.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Tuk	Tuk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	no	no	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	appos	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	horseback	horseback	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | little Tuk |  |  | bed |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | past | Tuk | Tuk |  | horseback |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic |

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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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