--- title: This way was more pleasant than the heavy sand road, and besides it… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: This way was more pleasant than the heavy sand road, and besides it was shorter; and he intended to go first to Fjaltring, near Bovbjerg, where the eel-breeder lived, to whom he had promised a visit. Who acts: way, sun, Bovbjerg. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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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 (way, sun, Bovbjerg), 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:pg27200:161:2 # text = This way was more pleasant than the heavy sand road, and besides it was shorter; and he intended to go first to Fjaltring, near Bovbjerg, where the eel-breeder lived, to whom he had promised a visit. 1 This this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 det _ _ 2 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 5 advmod _ _ 5 pleasant pleasant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 than than ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 besides besides ADP IN _ 16 mark _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 shorter short ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 intended intend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 22 advmod _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 Fjaltring Fjaltring PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 near near ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 Bovbjerg Bovbjerg PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 30 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 35 advmod _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 32 eel eel NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 breeder breeder NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 35 obl _ _ 39 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 40 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 promised promise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 38 acl:relcl _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 visit visit NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | this way | | | | | than the heavy sand road; pleasant *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | past | way | | | | | short *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **intend** | past | sun | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | sun *not said here* | | | Fjaltring | | first *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to fjaltring=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **live** | past | Bovbjerg | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past · perfect | sun | a visit | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent visit=Theme | 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: [sentence 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/161/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/161/3/) - ↑ back to [A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/161/)