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title: He was to travel this path now, for no goblet of life is all bittern… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He was to travel this path now, for no goblet of life is all bitterness; no good man would pour out such a draught for his fellow-man, and how should He do it, Who is love personified? Who acts: Jurgen, goblet, good man. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Sto
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 67

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He was to travel this path now, for no goblet of life is all bitterness; no good man would pour out such a draught for his fellow-man, and how should He do it, Who is love personified?

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**Who acts:** Jurgen, goblet, good man · **What happens:** be, pour out, do, personify · **To what, where:** draught, love

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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, goblet, good man), 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:pg27200:161:67
# text = He was to travel this path now, for no goblet of life is all bitterness; no good man would pour out such a draught for his fellow-man, and how should He do it, Who is love personified?
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	travel	travel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
11	goblet	goblet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	bitterness	bitterness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
19	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	pour	pour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	26	det:predet	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	draught	draught	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
29	fellow	fellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
34	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	37	advmod	_	_
35	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	42	nsubj	_	_
41	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
42	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	parataxis	_	_
43	personified	personify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	?	?	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 |  |  |  | now | travel *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | no goblet of life |  |  |  |  | for all bitterness | tree rules |
| 3 | **pour out** | would | no good man | such draught |  |  |  | for Jurgen's fellow man | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent draught=Patient for man=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **do** | should | Jurgen | draught |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 5 | **is a** | present |  | love |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **personify** | participle |  | love *not said here* |  |  |  |  | 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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