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title: *Corsor, on the Great Belt, called, formerly, before the introductio… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: *Corsor, on the Great Belt, called, formerly, before the introduction of steam-vessels, when travellers were often obliged to wait a long time for a favorable wind, “the most tiresome of towns.” A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk, with its dependency tr
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 44

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\*Corsor, on the Great Belt, called, formerly, before the introduction of steam-vessels, when travellers were often obliged to wait a long time for a favorable wind, “the most tiresome of towns.”

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**What happens:** call, oblige, wait, introduce · **To what, where:** Corsor, travellers, steam vessels · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg1597:25:44
# text = *Corsor, on the Great Belt, called, formerly, before the introduction of steam-vessels, when travellers were often obliged to wait a long time for a favorable wind, “the most tiresome of towns.”
1	*	*	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Corsor	Corsor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Belt	Belt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	formerly	formerly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	before	before	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	introduction	introduction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	xcomp	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	steam	steam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	vessels	vessel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
22	travellers	traveller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
24	often	often	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl:unmarked	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	favorable	favorable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	39	advmod	_	_
39	tiresome	tiresome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	conj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | participle · passive |  | Corsor |  |  |  | formerly *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **oblige** | past · passive |  | travellers |  |  |  | often *property* | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result |
| 3 | **wait** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | time | for a favorable wind | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **introduce** |  |  | steam vessels |  |  |  |  | nom introduction «act transitive»: of=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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