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title: Early the next morning, John packed up his little bundle of clothes,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Early the next morning, John packed up his little bundle of clothes, and placed all his money, which consisted of fifty dollars and a few shillings, in his girdle; with this he determined to try his fortune in the world. Who acts: John, money. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» b
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 29

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Early the next morning, John packed up his little bundle of clothes, and placed all his money, which consisted of fifty dollars and a few shillings, in his girdle; with this he determined to try his fortune in the world.

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**Who acts:** John, money · **What happens:** pack up, place, consist, determine, try · **To what, where:** little bundle, money, girdle, fortune, world

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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 (John, money), 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:pg27200:196:29
# text = Early the next morning, John packed up his little bundle of clothes, and placed all his money, which consisted of fifty dollars and a few shillings, in his girdle; with this he determined to try his fortune in the world.
1	Early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	packed	pack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	bundle	bundle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	19	det:predet	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	consisted	consist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	dollars	dollar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	shillings	shilling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	girdle	girdle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	38	obl	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	determined	determine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	xcomp	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pack up** | past | John | John's little bundle of clothes |  |  | morning |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme |
| 2 | **place** | past | John *not said here* | John's money |  | John's girdle |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent money=Theme in girdle=Destination |
| 3 | **consist** | past | John's money |  |  |  |  | of fifty dollars and a few shillings | tree rules |
| 4 | **determine** | past | John |  |  |  |  | with this | vn discover-84 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **try** | to-infinitive | John *not said here* | John's fortune |  | the world |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Eventuality |

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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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