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title: The traveller then returned to the inn where John still slept, took… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The traveller then returned to the inn where John still slept, took off his wings and laid down on the bed, for he was very tired. Who acts: traveller, John. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 6

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The traveller then returned to the inn where John still slept, took off his wings and laid down on the bed, for he was very tired.

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**Who acts:** traveller, John · **What happens:** return, sleep, take off, lay down, be · **To what, where:** wings, bed

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (traveller, John), 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:pg27200:198:6
# text = The traveller then returned to the inn where John still slept, took off his wings and laid down on the bed, for he was very tired.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	traveller	traveller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	inn	inn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	11	advmod	_	_
9	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	still	still	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	off	off	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
19	down	down	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	very	very	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | the traveller |  |  |  | then | to the inn *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to inn=Result |
| 2 | **sleep** | past | John |  |  |  | still |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **take off** | past | the traveller *not said here* | traveller's wings |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Theme |
| 4 | **lay down** | participle | the traveller *not said here* |  |  | the bed |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on bed=Destination |
| 5 | **is** | past | traveller |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | tree rules |

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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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