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description: He heard loud talking inside; Martin was not alone, and this made Jurgen waver in his determination, for he did not wish to see Else again. Who acts: Jurgen, Martin, this. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, with its dependen
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 109

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He heard loud talking inside; Martin was not alone, and this made Jurgen waver in his determination, for he did not wish to see Else again.

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**Who acts:** Jurgen, Martin, this · **What happens:** hear, talk, not be, make, not wish, see · **To what, where:** Jurgen waver, determination

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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, Martin, this), 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:pg27200:160:109
# text = He heard loud talking inside; Martin was not alone, and this made Jurgen waver in his determination, for he did not wish to see Else again.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
5	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	Martin	Martin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	nsubj	_	_
14	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	waver	waver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	determination	determination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	wish	wish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	Else	else	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	again	again	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | Jurgen |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **talk** | gerund | Jurgen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | inside *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **is** | past | Martin |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | past | this | Jurgen waver |  | Jurgen's determination |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset waver=Product |
| 5 | **not** **wish** | past · do-support | Jurgen |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 6 | **see** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Jurgen *not said here* |  |  |  | again | else *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **determine** |  | Jurgen |  |  |  |  |  | nom determination «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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