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title: He travelled all over the world in hopes of finding such a lady; but… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He travelled all over the world in hopes of finding such a lady; but there was always something wrong. Who acts: Prince, hopes, something. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Real Princess, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Real Princess, sentence 2

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He travelled all over the world in hopes of finding such a lady; but there was always something wrong.

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**Who acts:** Prince, hopes, something · **What happens:** travel, find, be · **To what, where:** world, lady

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Real Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, hopes, something), 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:pg1597:4:2
# text = He travelled all over the world in hopes of finding such a lady; but there was always something wrong.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	travelled	travel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	hopes	hope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
9	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	finding	find	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
11	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	13	det:predet	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	_
17	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
18	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	17	advmod	_	_
19	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	17	nsubj	_	_
20	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **travel** | past | Prince |  |  | the world |  | in hopes | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over world=Trajectory |
| 2 | **find** | gerund | hopes *not said here* | such lady |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Topic |
| 3 | **be** | past | something |  |  | there |  | always *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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