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title: He had been there the day before to say farewell, and his mother was… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He had been there the day before to say farewell, and his mother was now very busy packing up various things for him to take with him on his voyage. Who acts: sailor, mother. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 57

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He had been there the day before to say farewell, and his mother was now very busy packing up various things for him to take with him on his voyage.

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**Who acts:** sailor, mother · **What happens:** be, say, pack up, take, voyage · **To what, where:** various things, voyage · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sailor, mother), 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:pg27200:13:57
# text = He had been there the day before to say farewell, and his mother was now very busy packing up various things for him to take with him on his voyage.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	cop	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	before	before	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
10	farewell	farewell	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	ccomp	_	_
19	packing	pack	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	advcl	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	voyage	voyage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past · perfect | sailor |  |  |  | day | there *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | sailor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | sailor's mother |  |  |  | now | busy *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **pack up** | gerund | sailor's mother *not said here* | various things |  |  |  | for sailor | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme thing=Destination |
| 5 | **take** | to-infinitive | sailor's mother *not said here* |  |  | sailor's voyage |  | with sailor | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on voyage=Destination |
| 6 | **voyage** |  | sailor |  |  |  |  |  | nom voyage «act transitive»: poss=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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