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title: In West Jutland one may go back in thought to old times, farther bac… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In West Jutland one may go back in thought to old times, farther back than the days when Christian VII ruled. Who acts: one, Christian VII. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 59

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In West Jutland one may go back in thought to old times, farther back than the days when Christian VII ruled.

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**Who acts:** one, Christian VII · **What happens:** go back, rule · **To what, where:** West

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, 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 (one, Christian VII), 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:pg27200:158:59
# text = In West Jutland one may go back in thought to old times, farther back than the days when Christian VII ruled.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	Jutland	Jutland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nsubj	_	_
5	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
15	back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
16	than	than	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
20	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	VII	VII	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	ruled	rule	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go back** | may | one |  |  | West | time | in thought | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **rule** | past | Christian VII |  |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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