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title: Judges of this kind were still to be found; and in Jutland, so far f… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Judges of this kind were still to be found; and in Jutland, so far from the capital, and from the enlightened, well-meaning, head of the Government, the law was still very loosely administered sometimes--the smallest grievance Jurgen could expect was that his case should be delayed. Who acts: meanin
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 41

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Judges of this kind were still to be found; and in Jutland, so far from the capital, and from the enlightened, well-meaning, head of the Government, the law was still very loosely administered sometimes--the smallest grievance Jurgen could expect was that his case should be delayed.

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**Who acts:** meaning, smallest grievance · **What happens:** find, enlighten, be, expect · **To what, where:** Judges, law

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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 (meaning, smallest grievance), 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:pg27200:161:41
# text = Judges of this kind were still to be found; and in Jutland, so far from the capital, and from the enlightened, well-meaning, head of the Government, the law was still very loosely administered sometimes--the smallest grievance Jurgen could expect was that his case should be delayed.
1	Judges	judge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
6	still	still	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Jutland	Jutland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
22	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	enlightened	enlighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	56	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	well	well	INTJ	UH	_	28	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	meaning	meaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nsubj:outer	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj:pass	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
38	still	still	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
39	very	very	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	loosely	loosely	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	administered	administer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
42	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	41	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	smallest	small	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	46	amod	_	_
46	grievance	grievance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
47	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	appos	_	_
48	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
49	expect	expect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	advcl	_	_
50	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	cop	_	_
51	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	56	mark	_	_
52	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
53	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nsubj	_	_
54	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
55	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	56	cop	_	_
56	delayed	delayed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past · passive |  | Judges of this kind |  |  | still |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme jutland=Attribute |
| 2 | **enlighten** | participle | meaning *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | past · passive | meaning *not said here* | the law |  |  | still | administer, loosely, sometimes *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **expect** | could | the smallest grievance |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | should · past | meaning |  |  |  |  | delayed *property* | tree rules |

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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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