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title: Jurgen knew all this, he had some little knowledge; and although he… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Jurgen knew all this, he had some little knowledge; and although he did not know the land of the Lombards beyond the lofty Alps, he had an idea that it must be there, for in his boyhood he had been in the south, in Spain. Who acts: Jurgen, land. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen»
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 76

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Jurgen knew all this, he had some little knowledge; and although he did not know the land of the Lombards beyond the lofty Alps, he had an idea that it must be there, for in his boyhood he had been in the south, in Spain.

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**Who acts:** Jurgen, land · **What happens:** know, have, not know, be · **To what, where:** this, little knowledge, land, idea, Spain, south

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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, land), 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:pg27200:161:76
# text = Jurgen knew all this, he had some little knowledge; and although he did not know the land of the Lombards beyond the lofty Alps, he had an idea that it must be there, for in his boyhood he had been in the south, in Spain.
1	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
13	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Lombards	Lombard	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Alps	Alp	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
34	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	cop	_	_
36	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
38	for	for	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	boyhood	boyhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
42	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
43	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
44	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	47	cop	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | Jurgen | this |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
| 2 | **have** | past | Jurgen | some little knowledge |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knowledge=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | Jurgen | the land of the Lombards beyond the lofty Alps |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer land=Stimulus |
| 4 | **have** | past | Jurgen | a idea |  | Spain |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | must | land | a idea *not said here* |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | past · perfect | Jurgen |  |  | the south |  | for Jurgen's boyhood | 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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