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title: Here stands Columbus, whom the street boys used once to follow and j… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Here stands Columbus, whom the street boys used once to follow and jeer, because he wanted to discover a new world; and he has discovered it. Who acts: street boys, Columbus. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, with its dependency tree 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 34

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Here stands Columbus, whom the street boys used once to follow and jeer, because he wanted to discover a new world; and he has discovered it.

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**Who acts:** street boys, Columbus · **What happens:** stand, use, follow, jeer, want, discover · **To what, where:** Columbus, new world, world

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (street boys, Columbus), 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:pg27200:190:34
# text = Here stands Columbus, whom the street boys used once to follow and jeer, because he wanted to discover a new world; and he has discovered it.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Columbus	Columbus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	obj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
10	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	9	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	jeer	jeer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	discover	discover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	discovered	discover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | present |  | Columbus |  | here |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer columbus=Stimulus |
| 2 | **use** | past | the street boys | Columbus |  |  |  | once *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent whom=Theme clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **follow** | to-infinitive | the street boys *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **jeer** | infinitive | the street boys *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **want** | past | Columbus |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 6 | **discover** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Columbus *not said here* | a new world |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Topic |
| 7 | **discover** | present · perfect | Columbus | world |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

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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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