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title: Many weeks passed, during which the shilling had travelled a long di… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Many weeks passed, during which the shilling had travelled a long distance in the purse, without in the least knowing where he was. Who acts: Many weeks, shilling, gentleman. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Silver Shilling, with its dependency tree and t
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 9

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Many weeks passed, during which the shilling had travelled a long distance in the purse, without in the least knowing where he was.

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**Who acts:** Many weeks, shilling, gentleman · **What happens:** pass, travell, know, be · **To what, where:** long distance, purse · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Many weeks, 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:pg27200:167:9
# text = Many weeks passed, during which the shilling had travelled a long distance in the purse, without in the least knowing where he was.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	during	during	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	obl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	shilling	shilling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	travelled	travell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	purse	purse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	22	advmod	_	_
22	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
23	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	25	advmod	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | Many weeks |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **travell** | past · perfect | the shilling | a long distance |  | the purse |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **know** | gerund | the shilling *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **be** | past | gentleman |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «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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