--- title: On the following morning, before the sun rose, he fastened his knaps… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: On the following morning, before the sun rose, he fastened his knapsack on his back, took his wooden provision box in his hand, and went away among the sand-hills towards the coast path. Who acts: sun. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:161:1 # text = On the following morning, before the sun rose, he fastened his knapsack on his back, took his wooden provision box in his hand, and went away among the sand-hills towards the coast path. 1 On on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 following follow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 amod _ _ 4 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 before before SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 fastened fasten VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 knapsack knapsack NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 21 wooden wooden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 22 provision provision NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 30 away away ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 among among ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 33 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 hills hill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 36 towards towards ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 coast coast NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 path path NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **follow** | gerund | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **rise** | past | the sun | | | | morning | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **fasten** | past | sun | sun's knapsack | | | | on sun's back | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent knapsack=Patient on back=Co-Patient | | 4 | **take** | past | the sun *not said here* | sun's wooden provision box | | sun's hand | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent box=Value in hand=Location | | 5 | **go away** | past | the sun *not said here* | | | the coast path | | among the sand hills; away *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme towards path=Initial\_Location | 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. **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. - ← previous: [A Story From the Sand-hills,…, 110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/160/110/) - next →: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/161/2/) - ↑ back to [A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/161/)