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title: But now it was only to the HOT lands that a learned man had come fro… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But now it was only to the HOT lands that a learned man had come from the cold; there he thought that he could run about just as when at home, but he soon found out his mistake. Who acts: sun, learned man, HOT lands, man. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow, with its
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 2

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But now it was only to the HOT lands that a learned man had come from the cold; there he thought that he could run about just as when at home, but he soon found out his mistake.

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**Who acts:** sun, learned man, HOT lands, man · **What happens:** be, learn, come, think, run about, find out · **To what, where:** HOT lands, cold, mistake · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, learned man, HOT lands, man), 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:pg1597:23:2
# text = But now it was only to the HOT lands that a learned man had come from the cold; there he thought that he could run about just as when at home, but he soon found out his mistake.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	HOT	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	acl:relcl	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	22	expl	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	ccomp	_	_
27	about	about	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	just	just	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	as	as	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
30	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	parataxis	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	37	advmod	_	_
37	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
38	out	out	ADP	RP	_	37	compound:prt	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | sun |  |  |  | now | to the HOT lands | tree rules |
| 2 | **learn** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come** | past · perfect | a learned man | the HOT lands |  | the cold |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location that=Theme |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the HOT lands |  |  | there |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **run about** | could | man |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **find out** | past | man | man's mistake |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Topic |
| 7 | **mistake** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom mistake «act intransitive»: 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:** «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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