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title: Up towards Skjagen they went, through the land of the Wendels, whenc… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Up towards Skjagen they went, through the land of the Wendels, whence the men with long beards (the Longobardi or Lombards) had emigrated in the reign of King Snio, when all the children and old people were to have been killed, till the noble Dame Gambaruk proposed that the young people should emigr
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 75

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Up towards Skjagen they went, through the land of the Wendels, whence the men with long beards (the Longobardi or Lombards) had emigrated in the reign of King Snio, when all the children and old people were to have been killed, till the noble Dame Gambaruk proposed that the young people should emigrate.

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**Who acts:** cloud, men, noble Dame Gambaruk, young people · **What happens:** go, emigrate, kill, propose · **To what, where:** land, reign, children

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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 (cloud, men, noble Dame Gambaruk, young people), 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:pg27200:161:75
# text = Up towards Skjagen they went, through the land of the Wendels, whence the men with long beards (the Longobardi or Lombards) had emigrated in the reign of King Snio, when all the children and old people were to have been killed, till the noble Dame Gambaruk proposed that the young people should emigrate.
1	Up	up	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Skjagen	Skjagen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Wendels	Wendel	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
14	whence	whence	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	beards	beard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Longobardi	Longobardi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	Lombards	Lombards	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	emigrated	emigrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	acl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	reign	reign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	Snio	Snio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
35	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	46	advmod	_	_
36	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	38	det:predet	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nsubj:pass	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	conj	_	_
42	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux:pass	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
44	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	aux	_	_
45	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	46	aux:pass	_	_
46	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
48	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
50	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
51	Dame	Dame	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	52	compound	_	_
52	Gambaruk	Gambaruk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
53	proposed	propose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
54	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	59	mark	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
56	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	59	nsubj	_	_
58	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	59	aux	_	_
59	emigrate	emigrate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | cloud |  |  | the land of the Wendels |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through land=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **emigrate** | past · perfect | the men with long beards |  |  | the reign of King |  | whence *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **kill** | past · perfect · passive |  | all children and old people |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **propose** | past | the noble Dame Gambaruk |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **emigrate** | should | the young people |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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