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title: I saw a caravan of emigrant peasant families who were bound to Hambu… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I saw a caravan of emigrant peasant families who were bound to Hamburgh, there to take ship for America, where fancied prosperity would bloom for them. Who acts: I, fancied prosperity. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fourteenth Evening, with its dependency t
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fourteenth Evening, sentence 5

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I saw a caravan of emigrant peasant families who were bound to Hamburgh, there to take ship for America, where fancied prosperity would bloom for them.

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**Who acts:** I, fancied prosperity · **What happens:** see, bind, take, fancy, bloom · **To what, where:** caravan, emigrant peasant families, Hamburgh, ship · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fourteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, fancied prosperity), 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:pg27200:105:5
# text = I saw a caravan of emigrant peasant families who were bound to Hamburgh, there to take ship for America, where fancied prosperity would bloom for them.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	caravan	caravan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	emigrant	emigrant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	peasant	peasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Hamburgh	Hamburgh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
18	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	26	advmod	_	_
23	fancied	fancy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	prosperity	prosperity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	bloom	bloom	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | I | a caravan of emigrant peasant families |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bind** | past · passive |  | emigrant peasant families | Hamburgh |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to hamburgh=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **take** | to-infinitive |  | ship |  | there |  | for America | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent ship=Theme for america=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **fancy** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **bloom** | would | fancied prosperity |  |  |  |  | for families *= family* | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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