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title: At a neighbour's house in the dunes there was a boy named Martin, wi… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: At a neighbour's house in the dunes there was a boy named Martin, with whom Jurgen was on very friendly terms, and they both took service in the same ship to Norway, and also went together to Holland. Who acts: Jurgen, terms. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 42

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At a neighbour's house in the dunes there was a boy named Martin, with whom Jurgen was on very friendly terms, and they both took service in the same ship to Norway, and also went together to Holland.

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**Who acts:** Jurgen, terms · **What happens:** be, name, take, go together · **To what, where:** boy, house, friendly terms, service, same ship, Holland

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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, terms), 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:pg27200:160:42
# text = At a neighbour's house in the dunes there was a boy named Martin, with whom Jurgen was on very friendly terms, and they both took service in the same ship to Norway, and also went together to Holland.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	dunes	dune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	Martin	Martin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	obl	_	_
18	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	very	very	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	nsubj	_	_
28	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	parataxis	_	_
29	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Norway	Norway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	also	also	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
40	together	together	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	Holland	Holland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | a boy |  | a neighbour's house in the dunes |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **name** | participle |  | a boy *not said here* |  |  |  | with a boy | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | Jurgen |  |  | friendly terms |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** | past | terms *= term* | service |  | the same ship to Norway |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent service=Value in ship=Location |
| 5 | **go together** | past | terms *= term* *not said here* |  |  | Holland |  | together *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to holland=Initial\_Location |

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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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