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title: As Hjalmar sailed by, he caught hold of one side of the sugar heart,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: As Hjalmar sailed by, he caught hold of one side of the sugar heart, and held it fast, and the princess held fast also, so that it broke in two pieces. Who acts: Hjalmar, heart. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, with its dependency 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 45

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As Hjalmar sailed by, he caught hold of one side of the sugar heart, and held it fast, and the princess held fast also, so that it broke in two pieces.

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**Who acts:** Hjalmar, heart · **What happens:** sail, catch, hold, break · **To what, where:** heart, princess, two pieces

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hjalmar, heart), 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:pg27200:134:45
# text = As Hjalmar sailed by, he caught hold of one side of the sugar heart, and held it fast, and the princess held fast also, so that it broke in two pieces.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Hjalmar	Hjalmar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
3	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
25	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
27	also	also	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	32	mark	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	fixed	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
35	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sail** | past |  |  |  |  |  | as Hjalmar | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **catch** | past | Hjalmar |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hold** | infinitive | Hjalmar *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of one side of the sugar heart | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **hold** | past |  | heart |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **hold** | participle |  | the princess *not said here* |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **break** | past | heart |  |  | two pieces |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in piece=Location |

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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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