--- title: But, having made up his mind to go to the fair, he determined to do… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: But, having made up his mind to go to the fair, he determined to do so, if only to have a look at it; so on he went to the town with his cow. Who acts: peasant. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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C. Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasant), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:132:31 # text = But, having made up his mind to go to the fair, he determined to do so, if only to have a look at it; so on he went to the town with his cow. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 having have AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 aux _ _ 4 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 acl _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 fair fair NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 determined determine VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 if if SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 21 only only ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 look look NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 at at ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 so so ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 30 on on SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make up** | gerund · perfect | | peasant's mind | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | | 2 | **go** | to-infinitive | | peasant's mind *not said here* | | the fair | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to fair=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **determine** | past | peasant | | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **do** | to-infinitive | peasant *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | to-infinitive | peasant *not said here* | a look | | look | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Patient | | 6 | **go** | past | peasant | | | the town | | with peasant's cow | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial\_Location | | 7 | **mind** | | peasant | | | | | | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/132/30/) - next →: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/132/32/) - ↑ back to [What the Old Man Does Is Always Right](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/132/)