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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 59

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At length he become a journeyman; and then, for the first time, he prepared for a journey to Copenhagen, with his knapsack packed and ready.

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**Who acts:** nearer · **What happens:** become, prepare, pack · **To what, where:** journeyman, length, Copenhagen, knapsack

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, 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 (nearer), 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:pg27200:202:59
# text = At length he become a journeyman; and then, for the first time, he prepared for a journey to Copenhagen, with his knapsack packed and ready.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	become	become	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	journeyman	journeyman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	amod	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Copenhagen	Copenhagen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	knapsack	knapsack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
27	packed	pack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | present | nearer *= near* | a journeyman |  | length |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **prepare** | past | nearer *= near* |  | Copenhagen |  | then; time | for a journey; with nearer's knapsack | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with knapsack=Instrument |
| 3 | **pack** | participle |  | nearer's knapsack *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |

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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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