--- title: A learned man once travelled into one of these warm climates, from t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: A learned man once travelled into one of these warm climates, from the cold regions of the north, and thought he would roam about as he did at home; but he soon had to change his opinion. Who acts: learned man, man. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/165/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Shadow](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/165/) / 2 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 2 A learned man once travelled into one of these warm climates, from the cold regions of the north, and thought he would roam about as he did at home; but he soon had to change his opinion. **Who acts:** learned man, man · **What happens:** learn, travel, think, roam, do, have · **To what, where:** home, opinion · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (learned man, man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:165:2 # text = A learned man once travelled into one of these warm climates, from the cold regions of the north, and thought he would roam about as he did at home; but he soon had to change his opinion. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 learned learn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 amod _ _ 3 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 5 advmod _ _ 5 travelled travel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 into into ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 11 det _ _ 10 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 climates climate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 from from ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 regions region NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 north north NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 roam roam VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 ccomp _ _ 26 about about ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 as as SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 30 at at ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ; ; PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 but but CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 36 advmod _ _ 36 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ _ 39 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 opinion opinion NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **learn** | participle | | | | | | | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **travel** | past | a learned man | | | | | into one of this warm climates and the cold regions of the north; once *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into one=Destination | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | a learned man *not said here* | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **roam** | would | man | | | | | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **do** | past | man | | | home | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **have** | past | man | | | | | soon *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **change** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | man's opinion | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opinion=Patient | | 8 | **opine** | | man | | | | | | nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/165/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/165/3/) - ↑ back to [The Shadow](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/165/)