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title: When war came into the country, he had gone on a diplomatic career t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: When war came into the country, he had gone on a diplomatic career to foreign courts. Who acts: war. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 49

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When war came into the country, he had gone on a diplomatic career to foreign courts.

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**Who acts:** war · **What happens:** come, go · **To what, where:** country, diplomatic career

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (war), 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:pg27200:146:49
# text = When war came into the country, he had gone on a diplomatic career to foreign courts.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	diplomatic	diplomatic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	career	career	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	courts	court	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | war |  |  | the country |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into country=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **go** | past · perfect | war |  |  | a diplomatic career to foreign courts |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on career=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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