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title: But early in the morning of the third day, a man came with an organ… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But early in the morning of the third day, a man came with an organ and played one of the melodies of home; and after that Knud could remain there no longer, so he started again on his journey toward the north. Who acts: man. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3, sentence 19

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But early in the morning of the third day, a man came with an organ and played one of the melodies of home; and after that Knud could remain there no longer, so he started again on his journey toward the north.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** come, play, remain, start, journey · **To what, where:** one, journey

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, 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 (man), 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:pg27200:204:19
# text = But early in the morning of the third day, a man came with an organ and played one of the melodies of home; and after that Knud could remain there no longer, so he started again on his journey toward the north.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	amod	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	organ	organ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	melodies	melody	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	after	after	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
29	Knud	Knud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
30	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
32	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	_
33	no	no	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	so	so	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
39	again	again	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
40	on	on	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
43	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | a man |  |  |  | day; morning | with a organ | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **play** | past | a man *not said here* | one of the melodies of home |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 3 | **remain** | could | a man *not said here* |  |  | there | after that Knud | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **start** | past | man |  |  | man's journey toward the north | again |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 5 | **journey** |  | man |  |  |  |  | toward the north | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent toward=obl |

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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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