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title: When this learned man arrived at home, he wrote books about the true… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: When this learned man arrived at home, he wrote books about the true, the good, and the beautiful, which are to be found in this world; and so days and years passed--many, many years. Who acts: this, man, days. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow, wit
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 51

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When this learned man arrived at home, he wrote books about the true, the good, and the beautiful, which are to be found in this world; and so days and years passed--many, many years.

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**Who acts:** this, man, days · **What happens:** learn, arrive, write, find, pass · **To what, where:** home, books, world · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (this, man, days), 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:pg27200:165:51
# text = When this learned man arrived at home, he wrote books about the true, the good, and the beautiful, which are to be found in this world; and so days and years passed--many, many years.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
3	learned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	parataxis	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
30	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
33	so	so	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
34	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	_
37	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
41	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | past | this |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **arrive** | past | man |  |  | home |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **write** | past | man | books |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme |
| 4 | **find** | present · passive |  |  |  | this world |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 5 | **pass** | past | days and years |  |  |  | year |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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