--- title: The visits to the church were festive occasions, but among the fishe… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The visits to the church were festive occasions, but among the fisherman's house one was especially looked forward to; this was, in fact, the visit of the brother of Jurgen's foster-mother, the eel-breeder from Fjaltring, near Bovbjerg. Who acts: visits, this. 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C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (visits, this), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:159:34 # text = The visits to the church were festive occasions, but among the fisherman's house one was especially looked forward to; this was, in fact, the visit of the brother of Jurgen's foster-mother, the eel-breeder from Fjaltring, near Bovbjerg. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 visits visit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 festive festive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 occasions occasion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 10 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 11 among among ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 fisherman fisherman NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 14 's 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 16 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 flat _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 18 especially especially ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 looked look VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 20 forward forward ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 20 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 23 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 27 nsubj _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 fact fact NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 visit visit NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 appos _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 35 Jurgen Jurgen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 36 's 's PART POS _ 35 case _ _ 37 foster foster NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 42 eel eel NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 43 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 breeder breeder NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 parataxis _ _ 45 from from ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 Fjaltring Fjaltring PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 48 near near ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 Bovbjerg Bovbjerg PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | the visits to the church | festive occasions and fact | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **look** | past · passive | the visits to the church *not said here* | | | | | among the fisherman's house; especially, forward *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: among house=Theme | | 3 | **is** | past | this | | | fact | | | tree rules | | 4 | **visit** | | | the brother of Jurgen's foster mother | | | | | nom visit «act transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/159/33/) - next →: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/159/35/) - ↑ back to [A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/159/)