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description: But he was conscious of his innocence, and as there was no chance of clearing himself at present he submitted to his fate. Who acts: Jurgen, chance. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 26

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But he was conscious of his innocence, and as there was no chance of clearing himself at present he submitted to his fate.

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**Who acts:** Jurgen, chance · **What happens:** be, clear, submit, fate · **To what, where:** chance, Jurgen, present, fate

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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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jurgen, chance), 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:pg27200:161:26
# text = But he was conscious of his innocence, and as there was no chance of clearing himself at present he submitted to his fate.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	conscious	conscious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	innocence	innocence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
15	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	clearing	clear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
17	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obj	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	submitted	submit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Jurgen |  |  |  |  | of Jurgen's innocence; conscious *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | no chance |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **clear** | gerund | no chance *not said here* | Jurgen |  | present |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent himself=Source |
| 4 | **submit** | past | Jurgen | present *not said here* | Jurgen's fate |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent present=Theme to fate=Recipient |
| 5 | **fate** |  | Jurgen |  |  |  |  |  | nom fate «event 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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