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title: So he packed his knapsack, and travelled through Germany, going from… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: So he packed his knapsack, and travelled through Germany, going from town to town, but finding neither rest or peace. Who acts: steamer. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 52

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So he packed his knapsack, and travelled through Germany, going from town to town, but finding neither rest or peace.

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**Who acts:** steamer · **What happens:** pack, travel, go, find · **To what, where:** knapsack, Germany, town, rest

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (steamer), 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:pg27200:203:52
# text = So he packed his knapsack, and travelled through Germany, going from town to town, but finding neither rest or peace.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	packed	pack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	knapsack	knapsack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	travelled	travel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	through	through	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
20	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
21	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pack** | past | steamer | steamer's knapsack |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent knapsack=Theme |
| 2 | **travel** | past | steamer *not said here* |  |  | Germany |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through germany=Trajectory |
| 3 | **go** | gerund | steamer *not said here* |  |  | town |  | to town | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from town=Initial\_Location to town=Destination |
| 4 | **find** | gerund | steamer *not said here* | neither rest or peace |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Topic |

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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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