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title: These were the last words Jurgen uttered in this world, for the thre… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: These were the last words Jurgen uttered in this world, for the thread that bound his immortal soul was severed, and nothing but the dead body lay in the dark church, while the storm raged outside, covering it with loose sand. Who acts: These, Jurgen, thread, nothing. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of H
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 6, sentence 18

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These were the last words Jurgen uttered in this world, for the thread that bound his immortal soul was severed, and nothing but the dead body lay in the dark church, while the storm raged outside, covering it with loose sand.

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**Who acts:** These, Jurgen, thread, nothing · **What happens:** be, utter, bind, sever, lie, rage · **To what, where:** last words, world, immortal soul, storm, dark church, soul

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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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (These, Jurgen, thread, nothing), 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:pg27200:163:18
# text = These were the last words Jurgen uttered in this world, for the thread that bound his immortal soul was severed, and nothing but the dead body lay in the dark church, while the storm raged outside, covering it with loose sand.
1	These	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	uttered	utter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	thread	thread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	bound	bind	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	immortal	immortal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	severed	sever	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
24	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	29	nsubj	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
29	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
38	raged	rage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	acl	_	_
39	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	covering	cover	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
42	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obj	_	_
43	with	with	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | These | the last words |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **utter** *speech: other* | past | Jurgen | the last words *not said here* |  | this world |  | for the thread | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
| 3 | **bind** | past | the thread |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sever** | past · passive |  | Jurgen's immortal soul |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **lie** | past | nothing | the storm |  | the dark church |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in church=Location |
| 6 | **rage** | participle |  | the storm *not said here* |  |  |  | outside *property* | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **cover** | gerund | nothing *not said here* | soul |  |  |  | with loose sand | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with sand=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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