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title: He started, and among the dunes met the old fisherman, who was angry… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He started, and among the dunes met the old fisherman, who was angry at his leaving the place. Who acts: Jurgen, dunes, old fisherman. 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 c
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 106

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He started, and among the dunes met the old fisherman, who was angry at his leaving the place.

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**Who acts:** Jurgen, dunes, old fisherman · **What happens:** start, meet, be, leave · **To what, where:** old fisherman, place

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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, dunes, old fisherman), 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:pg27200:160:106
# text = He started, and among the dunes met the old fisherman, who was angry at his leaving the place.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
5	among	among	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dunes	dune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	parataxis	_	_
16	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Gender=Masc|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | past | Jurgen |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **meet** | past | the dunes | the old fisherman |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fisherman=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | the old fisherman |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **leave** | gerund | Jurgen | the place |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |

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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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