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title: At last they arrived at "Vendilskaga," as Skjagen is called in old N… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: At last they arrived at "Vendilskaga," as Skjagen is called in old Norwegian and Icelandic writings. Who acts: flowers, Vendilskaga. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 78

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At last they arrived at "Vendilskaga," as Skjagen is called in old Norwegian and Icelandic writings.

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**Who acts:** flowers, Vendilskaga · **What happens:** arrive, call · **To what, where:** last, Skjagen, old Norwegian writings · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (flowers, Vendilskaga), 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:pg27200:161:78
# text = At last they arrived at "Vendilskaga," as Skjagen is called in old Norwegian and Icelandic writings.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Vendilskaga	Vendilskaga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	Skjagen	Skjagen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
15	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
16	Norwegian	Norwegian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	Icelandic	icelandic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	writings	writing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past | flowers *= flower* |  |  | last |  | at Vendilskaga | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **call** | present · passive | Vendilskaga *not said here* | Skjagen |  | old Norwegian writings |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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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