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title: From Norre-Vosborg, where the juniper blossomed, the journey became… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: From Norre-Vosborg, where the juniper blossomed, the journey became more pleasant, for they met some other people who were also going to the funeral and were riding in waggons. Who acts: juniper, journey, trees, other people. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 69

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From Norre-Vosborg, where the juniper blossomed, the journey became more pleasant, for they met some other people who were also going to the funeral and were riding in waggons.

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**Who acts:** juniper, journey, trees, other people · **What happens:** blossom, become, meet, go, ride · **To what, where:** Norre, other people, funeral, waggons

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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 (juniper, journey, trees, other people), 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:pg27200:159:69
# text = From Norre-Vosborg, where the juniper blossomed, the journey became more pleasant, for they met some other people who were also going to the funeral and were riding in waggons.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Norre	Norre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Vosborg	Vosborg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	juniper	juniper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	blossomed	blossom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
15	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
20	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
21	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	also	also	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	acl:relcl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	funeral	funeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	riding	ride	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	waggons	waggon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blossom** | participle | the juniper |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **become** | past | the journey |  |  | Norre and Vosborg |  | pleasant *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **meet** | past | trees *= tree* | some other people |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **go** | past · progressive | some other people |  |  | the funeral |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to funeral=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **ride** | past · progressive | trees *= tree* *not said here* |  |  | waggons |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent 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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