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title: He had dared to attempt to reach foreign territories unnoticed, and… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He had dared to attempt to reach foreign territories unnoticed, and must therefore give up fatherland, mother, his dearest friends, all, or sink down into the stream of common life. Who acts: pupil. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller A
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 49

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He had dared to attempt to reach foreign territories unnoticed, and must therefore give up fatherland, mother, his dearest friends, all, or sink down into the stream of common life.

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**Who acts:** pupil · **What happens:** dare, attempt, reach, give up, sink down · **To what, where:** foreign territories, fatherland, stream

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pupil), 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:pg27200:129:49
# text = He had dared to attempt to reach foreign territories unnoticed, and must therefore give up fatherland, mother, his dearest friends, all, or sink down into the stream of common life.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	dared	dare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	attempt	attempt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	territories	territory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	unnoticed	unnoticed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	fatherland	fatherland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	dearest	dear	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	23	amod	_	_
23	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	sink	sink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
29	down	down	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	into	into	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dare** | past · perfect | pupil |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **attempt** | to-infinitive | pupil *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **reach** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | pupil *not said here* | foreign territories |  |  |  | unnoticed *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent territory=Theme |
| 4 | **give up** | must |  | fatherland and mother and pupil's dearest friends |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fatherland=Source |
| 5 | **sink down** | infinitive |  |  |  | the stream of common life |  | down *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient 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:** «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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