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title: One day, it really did go out into the world, for it belonged to a g… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: One day, it really did go out into the world, for it belonged to a gentleman who was about to travel in foreign lands. Who acts: shilling, gentleman. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Silver Shilling, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 5

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One day, it really did go out into the world, for it belonged to a gentleman who was about to travel in foreign lands.

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**Who acts:** shilling, gentleman · **What happens:** go out, belong, be, travel · **To what, where:** world, foreign lands

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Silver Shilling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shilling, gentleman), 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:pg27200:167:5
# text = One day, it really did go out into the world, for it belonged to a gentleman who was about to travel in foreign lands.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	really	really	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	out	out	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	belonged	belong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	about	about	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	travel	travel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | past · do-support | shilling |  |  | the world | day | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **belong** | past | shilling |  |  |  |  | to a gentleman | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | a gentleman |  |  |  |  | about *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **travel** | to-infinitive | a gentleman *not said here* |  |  | foreign lands |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Trajectory |

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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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