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title: One morning merchant Bronne went out to the lighthouse, which stands… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: One morning merchant Bronne went out to the lighthouse, which stands a little way out of Old Skjagen, not far from "Grenen." Who acts: One morning merchant, lighthouse. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, with its dependency 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 32

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One morning merchant Bronne went out to the lighthouse, which stands a little way out of Old Skjagen, not far from "Grenen."

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**Who acts:** One morning merchant, lighthouse · **What happens:** go out, stand · **To what, where:** little way, Old Skjagen

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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 (One morning merchant, lighthouse), 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:pg27200:162:32
# text = One morning merchant Bronne went out to the lighthouse, which stands a little way out of Old Skjagen, not far from "Grenen."
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Bronne	Bronne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	lighthouse	lighthouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Skjagen	Skjagen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
22	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Grenen	Grenen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | past | One morning merchant |  |  |  |  | to the lighthouse; out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stand** | present | the lighthouse | a little way |  | Old Skjagen and Grenen |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent way=Theme out skjagen=Destination |

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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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