--- title: Jurgen's heart was still soft--it was young, and therefore it was a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Jurgen's heart was still soft--it was young, and therefore it was a good thing that Miss Clara was going in three weeks' time to Christiansand in Norway, in her father's ship, to visit an aunt and to stay there the whole winter. Who acts: heart, goblet, good thing. 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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 (heart, goblet, good thing), 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:pg27200:161:95 # text = Jurgen's heart was still soft--it was young, and therefore it was a good thing that Miss Clara was going in three weeks' time to Christiansand in Norway, in her father's ship, to visit an aunt and to stay there the whole winter. 1 Jurgen Jurgen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 still still ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 -- -- PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 13 therefore therefore ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ _ 19 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 20 Miss Miss PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 21 Clara Clara PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 flat _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 acl:relcl _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 25 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 26 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ' 's PART POS _ 26 case _ _ 28 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 Christiansand Christiansand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 Norway Norway PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 35 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 37 's 's PART POS _ 36 case _ _ 38 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 visit visit VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 42 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 aunt aunt NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 45 to to PART TO _ 46 mark _ _ 46 stay stay VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 41 conj _ _ 47 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 46 advmod _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 49 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 50 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Jurgen's heart | | | | still | soft *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | past | goblet | | | | | young *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | past | goblet | a good thing | | | | therefore *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **go** | past · progressive | a good thing | | | Miss's father's ship | time | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in ship=Location | | 5 | **visit** | to-infinitive | | a aunt | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aunt=Co-Agent | | 6 | **stay** | to-infinitive | | | | there | winter | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/161/94/) - next →: [sentence 96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/161/96/) - ↑ back to [A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/161/)