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title: Jurgen proposed to start early in the morning, and on the evening be… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Jurgen proposed to start early in the morning, and on the evening before his departure, when it was already getting rather late, he felt a wish to visit Martin once more. Who acts: Jurgen, departure. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hill
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 105

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Jurgen proposed to start early in the morning, and on the evening before his departure, when it was already getting rather late, he felt a wish to visit Martin once more.

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**Who acts:** Jurgen, departure · **What happens:** propose, start, get, feel, visit, depart · **To what, where:** wish, Martin

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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, departure), 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:pg27200:160:105
# text = Jurgen proposed to start early in the morning, and on the evening before his departure, when it was already getting rather late, he felt a wish to visit Martin once more.
1	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	proposed	propose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	before	before	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	departure	departure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	already	already	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
23	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
32	Martin	Martin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
33	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	34	advmod	_	_
34	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **propose** | past | Jurgen |  |  |  | evening |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **start** | to-infinitive | Jurgen *not said here* |  |  |  | morning | early *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **get** | past · progressive | departure |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **feel** | past | Jurgen | a wish |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Theme |
| 5 | **visit** | to-infinitive | Jurgen *not said here* | Martin |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent martin=Co-Agent |
| 6 | **depart** |  | Jurgen |  |  |  |  |  | nom departure «act intransitive»: 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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