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title: One day he went for a walk across the fields with his young pupils a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: One day he went for a walk across the fields with his young pupils and their elder sister, who had lately been confirmed. Who acts: pastor. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 67

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One day he went for a walk across the fields with his young pupils and their elder sister, who had lately been confirmed.

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**Who acts:** pastor · **What happens:** go, confirm · **To what, where:** fields, elder sister

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pastor), 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:pg27200:155:67
# text = One day he went for a walk across the fields with his young pupils and their elder sister, who had lately been confirmed.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	across	across	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	pupils	pupil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	lately	lately	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	confirmed	confirm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | pastor |  |  | the fields | day | for a walk; with pastor's young pupils and pupils's elder sister | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme across field=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **confirm** | past · perfect · passive |  | pupils's elder sister |  |  |  | lately *property* | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

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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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