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title: Hjalmar continued to sail, sometimes through woods, sometimes as it… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Hjalmar continued to sail, sometimes through woods, sometimes as it were through large halls, and then by large cities. Who acts: Hjalmar, wood. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 49

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Hjalmar continued to sail, sometimes through woods, sometimes as it were through large halls, and then by large cities.

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**Who acts:** Hjalmar, wood · **What happens:** continue, sail, be · **To what, where:** woods

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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, wood), 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:pg27200:134:49
# text = Hjalmar continued to sail, sometimes through woods, sometimes as it were through large halls, and then by large cities.
1	Hjalmar	Hjalmar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	sail	sail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	8	advmod	_	_
7	through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	16	advmod	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	through	through	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	halls	hall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | past | Hjalmar |  |  |  |  | by large cities | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **sail** | to-infinitive | Hjalmar *not said here* |  |  | woods |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through wood=Trajectory |
| 3 | **is** | past | wood |  |  |  |  | as large halls; sometimes *property* | tree rules |

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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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