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title: This thought passed through Jurgen's mind one day while they were ou… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: This thought passed through Jurgen's mind one day while they were out at sea, where his foster-father had been taken suddenly ill. Who acts: thought, boats, 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
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 76

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This thought passed through Jurgen's mind one day while they were out at sea, where his foster-father had been taken suddenly ill.

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**Who acts:** thought, boats, Jurgen · **What happens:** pass, be, take, mind · **To what, where:** mind, sea, foster father

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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 (thought, boats, 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:pg27200:160:76
# text = This thought passed through Jurgen's mind one day while they were out at sea, where his foster-father had been taken suddenly ill.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	out	out	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
17	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
19	foster	foster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
25	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | this thought |  |  | Jurgen's mind | day |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through mind=Location |
| 2 | **is** | past | boats *= boat* |  |  | sea |  | out *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | past · perfect · passive |  | thought's foster father |  |  |  | ill *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination |
| 4 | **mind** |  | Jurgen |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: 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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