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title: The journey had been so fatiguing that John and his fellow-traveller… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The journey had been so fatiguing that John and his fellow-traveller stopped to rest at a roadside inn, so that they might gain strength for their journey on the morrow. Who acts: journey, John, clouds. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companio
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 103

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The journey had been so fatiguing that John and his fellow-traveller stopped to rest at a roadside inn, so that they might gain strength for their journey on the morrow.

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**Who acts:** journey, John, clouds · **What happens:** fatigue, stop, rest, gain, journey · **To what, where:** roadside inn, strength, morrow

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (journey, John, clouds), 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:pg27200:196:103
# text = The journey had been so fatiguing that John and his fellow-traveller stopped to rest at a roadside inn, so that they might gain strength for their journey on the morrow.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	fatiguing	fatigue	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
8	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
11	fellow	fellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	traveller	traveller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
14	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	roadside	roadside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	inn	inn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	26	mark	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	fixed	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	gain	gain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
27	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fatigue** | past · perfect · progressive | the journey |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **stop** | past | John and John's fellow traveller |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **rest** | to-infinitive | John and John's fellow traveller *not said here* |  |  | a roadside inn |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at inn=Location |
| 4 | **gain** | might | clouds *= cloud* | strength |  |  |  | for clouds's journey on the morrow | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent strength=Theme for journey=Source |
| 5 | **journey** |  | clouds *= cloud* |  |  | the morrow |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent on=place |

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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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