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title: The learned man then came home, and he wrote books about what was tr… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The learned man then came home, and he wrote books about what was true in the world, and about what was good and what was beautiful; and there passed days and years--yes! many years passed away. Who acts: learned man, man, days, many years. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, T
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 59

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The learned man then came home, and he wrote books about what was true in the world, and about what was good and what was beautiful; and there passed days and years--yes! many years passed away.

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**Who acts:** learned man, man, days, many years · **What happens:** come, write, be, pass, pass away · **To what, where:** books, world

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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 (learned man, man, days, many years), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg1597:1881`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg1597:23:59
# text = The learned man then came home, and he wrote books about what was true in the world, and about what was good and what was beautiful; and there passed days and years--yes! many years passed away.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	learned	learned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	home	home	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	about	about	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	nmod	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	about	about	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	conj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	22	conj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	there	there	PRON	EX	_	32	expl	_	_
32	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
33	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	_
36	--	--	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
37	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	41	discourse	_	_
38	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	37	punct	_	_
39	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	_
41	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
42	away	away	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the learned man |  |  |  | then | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **write** | past | man | books |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent book=Recipient about what=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  | the world |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **pass** | past | days and years |  |  | there |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **pass away** | past | many years |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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