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title: "While young, I can wander without a care, And build new houses ever… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "While young, I can wander without a care, And build new houses everywhere; Fair and bright are my dreams of home, Always thought of wherever I roam. Who acts: Margaret, Always. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 130

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"While young, I can wander without a care, And build new houses everywhere; Fair and bright are my dreams of home, Always thought of wherever I roam.

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**Who acts:** Margaret, Always · **What happens:** wander, build, be, think, roam · **To what, where:** new houses, Fair dreams

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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 (Margaret, Always), 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:pg27200:177:130
# text = "While young, I can wander without a care, And build new houses everywhere; Fair and bright are my dreams of home, Always thought of wherever I roam.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
3	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	wander	wander	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	without	without	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	build	build	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
18	Fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	dreams	dream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	Always	Always	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	ccomp	_	_
31	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	roam	roam	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wander** *in a quote* | can | Margaret |  |  |  |  | without a care | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **build** *in a quote* | present | Margaret *not said here* | new houses |  |  |  | everywhere *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Product |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | my Fair dreams |  |  |  | of home | tree rules |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past | Always |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **roam** *in a quote* | present | Margaret |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «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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