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title: He wished to go a little way past the sand-hills, out into the dunes… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He wished to go a little way past the sand-hills, out into the dunes, and at last he did: four happy days, the brightest of his childhood, fell to his lot, and the whole beauty and splendour of Jutland, all the happiness and sunshine of his home, were concentrated in these. Who acts: Jurgen. A sente
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 53

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He wished to go a little way past the sand-hills, out into the dunes, and at last he did: four happy days, the brightest of his childhood, fell to his lot, and the whole beauty and splendour of Jutland, all the happiness and sunshine of his home, were concentrated in these.

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**Who acts:** Jurgen · **What happens:** wish, go, do, fall, concentrate · **To what, where:** little way, sand hills, last, whole beauty, these

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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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jurgen), 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:pg27200:159:53
# text = He wished to go a little way past the sand-hills, out into the dunes, and at last he did: four happy days, the brightest of his childhood, fell to his lot, and the whole beauty and splendour of Jutland, all the happiness and sunshine of his home, were concentrated in these.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	past	past	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	out	out	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	dunes	dune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	obl	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
25	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
26	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	brightest	bright	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	27	acl:relcl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	childhood	childhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	nsubj:pass	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	splendour	splendour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	Jutland	Jutland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
49	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	51	det:predet	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	conj	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
56	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
58	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	59	aux:pass	_	_
59	concentrated	concentrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
60	in	in	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
61	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	59	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** | past | Jurgen |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Jurgen *not said here* | a little way |  | the sand hills |  | out *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme past hill=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **do** | past | Jurgen |  |  | last | day |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fall** | past | Jurgen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to Jurgen's lot | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to lot=Theme |
| 5 | **concentrate** | past · passive |  | the whole beauty and splendour of Jutland and all happiness of Jurgen's home and sunshine |  | these |  |  | tree rules |

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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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