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title: One evening Jurgen sat in his room alone: all at once his mind seeme… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: One evening Jurgen sat in his room alone: all at once his mind seemed to become clearer, and a restless feeling came over him, such as had often, in his younger days, driven him out to wander over the sand-hills or on the heath. " Who acts: Jurgen, mind, restless feeling. A sentence of «Fairy Tales 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 99

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One evening Jurgen sat in his room alone: all at once his mind seemed to become clearer, and a restless feeling came over him, such as had often, in his younger days, driven him out to wander over the sand-hills or on the heath. "

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**Who acts:** Jurgen, mind, restless feeling · **What happens:** sit, seem, become, come, have, drive out · **To what, where:** room, Jurgen, sand hills

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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, mind, restless feeling), 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:pg27200:162:99
# text = One evening Jurgen sat in his room alone: all at once his mind seemed to become clearer, and a restless feeling came over him, such as had often, in his younger days, driven him out to wander over the sand-hills or on the heath. "
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	conj	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	nmod	_	_
12	once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	clearer	clear	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	restless	restless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
25	over	over	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	30	case	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	fixed	_	_
30	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	parataxis	_	_
31	often	often	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
35	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	36	amod	_	_
36	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	conj	_	_
39	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	out	out	ADP	RP	_	38	compound:prt	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	wander	wander	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	advcl	_	_
43	over	over	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
45	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	_
48	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
49	on	on	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	heath	heath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
53	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | Jurgen |  |  | Jurgen's room | evening | alone *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location |
| 2 | **seem** | past | Jurgen's mind |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **become** | to-infinitive | Jurgen's mind *not said here* |  |  |  |  | clear *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **come** | past | a restless feeling |  |  |  |  | over Jurgen | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme over he=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **have** | participle |  |  |  |  | day | often *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **drive out** | participle |  | Jurgen |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 7 | **wander** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the sand hills or the heath |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over hill=Trajectory |
| 8 | **mind** |  | Jurgen |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition 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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