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title: Yes, poor child--a child still, yet more than thirty years old, for… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Yes, poor child--a child still, yet more than thirty years old, for Jurgen had arrived at this age in Old Skjagen. Who acts: Jurgen. 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 cla
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 93

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Yes, poor child--a child still, yet more than thirty years old, for Jurgen had arrived at this age in Old Skjagen.

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**Who acts:** Jurgen · **What happens:** arrive · **To what, where:** age

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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), 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:pg27200:162:93
# text = Yes, poor child--a child still, yet more than thirty years old, for Jurgen had arrived at this age in Old Skjagen.
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	15	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
8	still	still	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	13	advmod	_	_
12	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Skjagen	Skjagen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past · perfect | Jurgen |  |  |  | at this age in Old Skjagen |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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