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title: In the evening his father was going to carry the parcel to the town… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In the evening his father was going to carry the parcel to the town to see his son once more, and take him a farewell greeting from his mother. Who acts: father, farewell. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 58

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In the evening his father was going to carry the parcel to the town to see his son once more, and take him a farewell greeting from his mother.

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**Who acts:** father, farewell · **What happens:** go, carry, see, take, greet · **To what, where:** parcel, town, son, sailor

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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 (father, farewell), 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:pg27200:13:58
# text = In the evening his father was going to carry the parcel to the town to see his son once more, and take him a farewell greeting from his mother.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	parcel	parcel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	20	advmod	_	_
20	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	farewell	farewell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	greeting	greet	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	acl	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · progressive | sailor's father |  |  |  | evening |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **carry** | to-infinitive | sailor's father *not said here* | the parcel |  | the town |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent parcel=Theme to town=Destination |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | sailor's father *not said here* | sailor's son |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer son=Stimulus |
| 4 | **take** | infinitive | sailor's father *not said here* | sailor |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Theme farewell=Destination |
| 5 | **greet** *speech: greet* | gerund | a farewell *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from sailor's mother | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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