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title: And again little Tuk lay in his bed, scarcely knowing whether he was… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And again little Tuk lay in his bed, scarcely knowing whether he was dreaming or not, for some one stood by him. 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 28

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And again little Tuk lay in his bed, scarcely knowing whether he was dreaming or not, for some one stood by him.

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**Who acts:** little Tuk, Tuk · **What happens:** lie, know, dream, stand · **To what, where:** bed · **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 (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:pg27200:80:28
# text = And again little Tuk lay in his bed, scarcely knowing whether he was dreaming or not, for some one stood by him.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Tuk	Tuk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
12	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	dreaming	dream	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	ccomp	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
22	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | little Tuk |  |  | Tuk's bed |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location |
| 2 | **know** | gerund | little Tuk *not said here* |  |  |  |  | scarcely *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **dream** | past · progressive | Tuk |  |  |  |  |  | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **stand** | past | little Tuk *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for some one; by Tuk | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by he=Location |

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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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