--- title: When his time was up, he packed up his knapsack, and went on his tra… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: When his time was up, he packed up his knapsack, and went on his travels, singing the journeyman's song,-- Who acts: time, Margaret, journeyman. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/177/129/) [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 Snowdrop](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/177/) / 129 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 129 When his time was up, he packed up his knapsack, and went on his travels, singing the journeyman's song,-- **Who acts:** time, Margaret, journeyman · **What happens:** be up, pack up, go, travel, sing · **To what, where:** knapsack, song This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, Margaret, journeyman), 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:pg27200:177:129 # text = When his time was up, he packed up his knapsack, and went on his travels, singing the journeyman's song,-- 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 packed pack VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 up up ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 knapsack knapsack NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 15 on on SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 travels travel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 singing sing VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 journeyman journeyman NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 22 's 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 -- -- PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be up** | past | Margaret's time | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **pack up** | past | Margaret | Margaret's knapsack | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent knapsack=Theme | | 3 | **go** | past | Margaret *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **travel** | present | Margaret *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | Margaret *not said here* | the journeyman's song | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | | 6 | **sing** | | the journeyman | | | | | | nom song «communication intransitive»: 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 128](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/177/128/) - next →: [sentence 130](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/177/130/) - ↑ back to [The Snowdrop](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/177/)