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title: He next sought and found a good master in Nuremberg, with whom he st… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He next sought and found a good master in Nuremberg, with whom he stayed and learnt the German language. Who acts: Knud. 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 clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 62

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He next sought and found a good master in Nuremberg, with whom he stayed and learnt the German language.

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**Who acts:** Knud · **What happens:** seek, find, stay, learn · **To what, where:** good master, Nuremberg, German language

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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 (Knud), 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:pg27200:203:62
# text = He next sought and found a good master in Nuremberg, with whom he stayed and learnt the German language.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	next	next	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Nuremberg	Nuremberg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	obl	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	learnt	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | past | Knud |  |  |  |  | next *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **find** | past | Knud *not said here* | a good master |  | Nuremberg |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Topic |
| 3 | **stay** | past | Knud |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **learn** | past | Knud *not said here* | the German language |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=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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