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title: Jurgen turned these things over in his mind all night. — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Jurgen turned these things over in his mind all night. Who acts: Jurgen. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 101

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Jurgen turned these things over in his mind all night.

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**Who acts:** Jurgen · **What happens:** turn over, mind · **To what, where:** things, mind

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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 3. 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:pg27200:160:101
# text = Jurgen turned these things over in his mind all night.
1	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	over	over	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn over** | past | Jurgen | this things |  | Jurgen's mind | night | over *property* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
| 2 | **mind** |  | Jurgen |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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