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title: "He killed a sailor of Dragor by mischance, and for that he has to w… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "He killed a sailor of Dragor by mischance, and for that he has to work for three years in irons. Who acts: husband. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 186

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"He killed a sailor of Dragor by mischance, and for that he has to work for three years in irons.

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**Who acts:** husband · **What happens:** kill, have, work · **To what, where:** sailor

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband), 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:pg27200:149:186
# text = "He killed a sailor of Dragor by mischance, and for that he has to work for three years in irons.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sailor	sailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Dragor	Dragor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	mischance	mischance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	irons	iron	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** *in a quote* | past | husband | a sailor of Dragor |  |  |  | by mischance | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sailor=Theme |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | husband |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **work** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | husband *not said here* |  |  |  | year | in irons | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in iron=Theme |

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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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