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title: “'But I had a different sort of sailing to that, later; and that, to… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “'But I had a different sort of sailing to that, later; and that, too, for many a year; a long way off, on great voyages.' Who acts: Granny, different sort. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 53

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“'But I had a different sort of sailing to that, later; and that, too, for many a year; a long way off, on great voyages.'

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**Who acts:** Granny, different sort · **What happens:** have, sail · **To what, where:** different sort

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Granny, different sort), 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:pg1597:17:53
# text = “'But I had a different sort of sailing to that, later; and that, too, for many a year; a long way off, on great voyages.'
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	sailing	sail	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
29	off	off	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	voyages	voyage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | past | Granny | a different sort |  |  |  | for many | tree rules |
| 2 | **sail** *in a quote* | gerund | a different sort *not said here* |  |  | a different sort |  | late *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to that=Trajectory |

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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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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