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title: It was bright daylight, and he could not remember his dream, but tha… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It was bright daylight, and he could not remember his dream, but that was not necessary, for we are not to know what will happen to us in the future. Who acts: house, Tuk, that, we. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tuk, with its dependency tree and the
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tuk, sentence 71

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It was bright daylight, and he could not remember his dream, but that was not necessary, for we are not to know what will happen to us in the future.

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**Who acts:** house, Tuk, that, we · **What happens:** be, not remember, not be, happen, dream · **To what, where:** bright daylight, dream, us, future · **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 (house, Tuk, that, we), 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:pg27200:80:71
# text = It was bright daylight, and he could not remember his dream, but that was not necessary, for we are not to know what will happen to us in the future.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	daylight	daylight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
21	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
26	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	28	nsubj	_	_
27	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	ccomp	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	future	future	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | house | bright daylight |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **remember** | could | Tuk | Tuk's dream |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent dream=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **is** | past | that |  |  |  |  | necessary *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **is** | present | we |  |  |  |  | know *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **happen** | future |  |  | us | the future |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in future=Location |
| 6 | **dream** |  | Tuk |  |  |  |  |  | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=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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