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title: He went out fishing, and in those days fish were more plentiful and… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He went out fishing, and in those days fish were more plentiful and larger than they are now. Who acts: Skjagen, fish. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 10

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He went out fishing, and in those days fish were more plentiful and larger than they are now.

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**Who acts:** Skjagen, fish · **What happens:** go out, be · **To what, where:** fishing

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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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Skjagen, fish), 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:pg27200:162:10
# text = He went out fishing, and in those days fish were more plentiful and larger than they are now.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	fishing	fishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
10	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
13	plentiful	plentiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	conj	_	_
16	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
19	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | past | Skjagen | fishing |  |  |  |  | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | fish |  |  |  | day | plentiful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | fish *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **does** | present | fish |  |  |  | now |  | vn exist-47.1 «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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