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title: Jurgen's foster parents went there, and he also went with them from… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Jurgen's foster parents went there, and he also went with them from the dunes, over heath and moor, where the Skjaerumaa takes its course through green meadows and contains many eels; mother eels live there with their daughters, who are caught and eaten up by wicked people. Who acts: foster parents,
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 56

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Jurgen's foster parents went there, and he also went with them from the dunes, over heath and moor, where the Skjaerumaa takes its course through green meadows and contains many eels; mother eels live there with their daughters, who are caught and eaten up by wicked people.

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**Who acts:** foster parents, Jurgen, heath, mother eels · **What happens:** go, take, contain, live, catch, eat up · **To what, where:** dunes, course, green meadows, many eels, daughters

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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 (foster parents, Jurgen, heath, mother eels), 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:pg27200:159:56
# text = Jurgen's foster parents went there, and he also went with them from the dunes, over heath and moor, where the Skjaerumaa takes its course through green meadows and contains many eels; mother eels live there with their daughters, who are caught and eaten up by wicked people.
1	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	foster	foster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	also	also	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	dunes	dune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	over	over	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	heath	heath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	moor	moor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	26	advmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Skjaerumaa	Skjaerumaa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
27	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	through	through	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	contains	contain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
34	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	eels	eel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
37	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	eels	eel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
39	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
40	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	39	advmod	_	_
41	with	with	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	47	nsubj:pass	_	_
46	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux:pass	_	_
47	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	43	acl	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	47	conj	_	_
50	up	up	ADP	RP	_	49	compound:prt	_	_
51	by	by	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Jurgen's foster parents |  |  | there |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | Jurgen |  |  | the dunes |  | with parents *= parent* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from dune=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **take** | present | heath and moor | Skjaerumaa's course |  | green meadows |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent course=Theme |
| 4 | **contain** | present | heath and moor *not said here* | many eels |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot eel=Theme |
| 5 | **live** | present | mother eels |  |  | there |  | with parents's daughters | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with daughter=Location |
| 6 | **catch** | present · passive |  | parents's daughters |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 7 | **eat up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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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