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title: Jurgen still breathed, so the fishermen carried him to the nearest h… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Jurgen still breathed, so the fishermen carried him to the nearest house upon the sand-hills, where a smith and general dealer lived who knew something of surgery, and bound up Jurgen's wounds in a temporary way until a surgeon could be obtained from the nearest town the next day. Who acts: Jurgen, 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 64

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Jurgen still breathed, so the fishermen carried him to the nearest house upon the sand-hills, where a smith and general dealer lived who knew something of surgery, and bound up Jurgen's wounds in a temporary way until a surgeon could be obtained from the nearest town the next day.

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**Who acts:** Jurgen, fishermen, smith · **What happens:** breathe, carry, live, know, bind up, obtain · **To what, where:** Jurgen, nearest house, something, wounds, surgeon, nearest town

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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 (Jurgen, fishermen, smith), 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:pg27200:162:64
# text = Jurgen still breathed, so the fishermen carried him to the nearest house upon the sand-hills, where a smith and general dealer lived who knew something of surgery, and bound up Jurgen's wounds in a temporary way until a surgeon could be obtained from the nearest town the next day.
1	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	still	still	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	breathed	breathe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fishermen	fisherman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	nearest	near	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
13	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	26	advmod	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	smith	smith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	dealer	dealer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
26	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	parataxis	_	_
29	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	28	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	surgery	surgery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
35	up	up	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	_
36	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	's	's	PART	POS	_	36	case	_	_
38	wounds	wound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	temporary	temporary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
43	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	surgeon	surgeon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj:pass	_	_
46	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
47	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	aux:pass	_	_
48	obtained	obtain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	conj	_	_
49	from	from	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	nearest	near	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	52	amod	_	_
52	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
54	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **breathe** | past | Jurgen |  |  |  | still |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **carry** | past | the fishermen | Jurgen |  | the nearest house |  | upon the sand hills | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to house=Destination |
| 3 | **live** | past | a smith and general dealer |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **know** | past |  | something |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus |
| 5 | **bind up** | participle | Jurgen *not said here* | Jurgen's wounds |  |  |  | in a temporary way | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent wound=Destination in way=Theme |
| 6 | **obtain** | could · passive |  | a surgeon |  | the nearest town | day |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from town=Source |
| 7 | **wound** |  | Jurgen |  |  |  |  |  | nom wound «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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