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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 27

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Then he went on board again, and once more encountered rough words and blows, much work and little sleep--such was his experience of life.

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**Who acts:** quantity · **What happens:** go, encounter, be · **To what, where:** board, rough words, such experience

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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 (quantity), 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:pg27200:160:27
# text = Then he went on board again, and once more encountered rough words and blows, much work and little sleep--such was his experience of life.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	11	advmod	_	_
10	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
11	encountered	encounter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	blows	blow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	experience	experience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | quantity |  |  | board | then; again |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on board=Location |
| 2 | **encounter** | past | quantity *not said here* | rough words and blows and much work and little sleep and quantity's such experience |  |  |  | once *property* | vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is a** | past | quantity *not said here* | quantity's such experience |  |  |  | of life | tree rules |

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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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