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title: The soldier longed very much to see the princess once more, so he se… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The soldier longed very much to see the princess once more, so he sent for the dog again in the night to fetch her, and to run with her as fast as ever he could. Who acts: soldier. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Tinder-box, with its dependency tree and 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 79

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The soldier longed very much to see the princess once more, so he sent for the dog again in the night to fetch her, and to run with her as fast as ever he could.

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**Who acts:** soldier · **What happens:** long, see, send, fetch, run · **To what, where:** princess

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier), 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:pg27200:193:79
# text = The soldier longed very much to see the princess once more, so he sent for the dog again in the night to fetch her, and to run with her as fast as ever he could.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	longed	long	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	much	much	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	11	advmod	_	_
11	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	again	again	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	_
32	as	as	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	advmod	_	_
34	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	37	advmod	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **long** | past | the soldier |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | the soldier *not said here* | the princess |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus |
| 3 | **send** | past | soldier |  |  |  | again; night | for the dog | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fetch** | to-infinitive | soldier *not said here* | princess |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 5 | **run** | to-infinitive | the soldier *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with princess; fast *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with she=Material |

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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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