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title: And he was to go still farther, for he was not yet fourteen years ol… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And he was to go still farther, for he was not yet fourteen years old when he went out in a ship to see the world. 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 cla
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 3

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And he was to go still farther, for he was not yet fourteen years old when he went out in a ship to see the world.

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**Who acts:** Jurgen · **What happens:** be, not be, go out, see · **To what, where:** ship, world

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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:pg27200:160:3
# text = And he was to go still farther, for he was not yet fourteen years old when he went out in a ship to see the world.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	still	still	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
13	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Jurgen |  |  |  |  | far, go *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past | Jurgen |  |  |  | year | old *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **go out** | past | Jurgen |  |  | a ship |  |  | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | Jurgen *not said here* | the world |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer world=Stimulus |

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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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