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title: In our time, it would be only a journey of a few hours, but then it… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In our time, it would be only a journey of a few hours, but then it took more than a day and a night to travel so far eastward from Eisenbach to a town still called Weimar, on the borders of Thuringia. Who acts: home, it. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 99

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In our time, it would be only a journey of a few hours, but then it took more than a day and a night to travel so far eastward from Eisenbach to a town still called Weimar, on the borders of Thuringia.

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**Who acts:** home, it · **What happens:** be, take, travel, call · **To what, where:** journey, Eisenbach, town · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (home, it), 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:pg27200:128:99
# text = In our time, it would be only a journey of a few hours, but then it took more than a day and a night to travel so far eastward from Eisenbach to a town still called Weimar, on the borders of Thuringia.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
20	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	23	advmod	_	_
21	than	than	ADP	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	travel	travel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	31	advmod	_	_
31	eastward	eastward	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Eisenbach	Eisenbach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
37	still	still	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	acl	_	_
39	Weimar	Weimar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	on	on	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	borders	border	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	Thuringia	Thuringia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | would | home | a journey |  |  | hour; time |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | past | it |  |  |  | then; day |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **travel** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | Eisenbach |  | to a town; on the borders of Thuringia; eastward *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to town=Destination |
| 4 | **call** | participle |  | a town *not said here* |  |  | still |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:** «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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