--- title: Weeks, months, a whole year had gone by, when Niels the thief, calle… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Weeks, months, a whole year had gone by, when Niels the thief, called also a horse-dealer, was arrested; and now better times came, and it was seen that Jurgen had been wrongly accused. Who acts: whole year, thief. 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 (whole year, thief), 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:pg27200:161:53 # text = Weeks, months, a whole year had gone by, when Niels the thief, called also a horse-dealer, was arrested; and now better times came, and it was seen that Jurgen had been wrongly accused. 1 Weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 10 by by SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 12 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 25 advmod _ _ 13 Niels Niels PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 thief thief NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl _ _ 18 also also ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 20 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 dealer dealer NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 arrested arrest VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 31 advmod _ _ 29 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 30 amod _ _ 30 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl:unmarked _ _ 31 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj:pass _ _ 35 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux:pass _ _ 36 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 advcl _ _ 37 that that SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 38 Jurgen Jurgen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 nsubj:pass _ _ 39 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 40 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 42 aux:pass _ _ 41 wrongly wrongly ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 42 accused accuse VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past · perfect | a whole year | | | | week | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **call** | participle | the thief *not said here* | a horse dealer | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **arrest** | past · passive | | Niels | | | | | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **come** | past | | | | | now; time | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **see** | past · passive | | dealer | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | | 6 | **accuse** | past · perfect · passive | | Jurgen | | | | wrongly *property* | vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=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 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/161/52/) - next →: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/161/54/) - ↑ back to [A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/161/)