--- title: Then he flew away to the town and bought a new dressing-gown, and af… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Then he flew away to the town and bought a new dressing-gown, and afterwards returned to the wood, where he composed a story, so as to be ready for Saturday, which was no easy matter. Who acts: father, Saturday. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Tru --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/35/29/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Flying Trunk](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/35/) / 29 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 29 Then he flew away to the town and bought a new dressing-gown, and afterwards returned to the wood, where he composed a story, so as to be ready for Saturday, which was no easy matter. **Who acts:** father, Saturday · **What happens:** fly away, buy, return, compose, be · **To what, where:** new dressing gown, story, easy matter This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, Saturday), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:35:29 # text = Then he flew away to the town and bought a new dressing-gown, and afterwards returned to the wood, where he composed a story, so as to be ready for Saturday, which was no easy matter. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 away away ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 bought buy VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 11 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 12 dressing dressing NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 gown gown NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 afterwards afterwards ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 returned return VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 25 advmod _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 composed compose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 so so ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 30 as as SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 32 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 33 cop _ _ 33 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 34 for for ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 Saturday Saturday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 41 nsubj _ _ 38 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 39 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 41 det _ _ 40 easy easy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 matter matter NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fly away** | past | father | | | | then | to the town *result*; away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to town=Result | | 2 | **buy** | past | father *not said here* | a new dressing gown | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gown=Theme | | 3 | **return** | past | father *not said here* | | | | | to the wood *result*; afterwards *property* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to wood=Result | | 4 | **compose** | past | father | a story | | | | | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Result | | 5 | **is** | to-infinitive | father *not said here* | | | | saturday | ready *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **is a** | past | Saturday | no easy matter | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/35/28/) - next →: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/35/30/) - ↑ back to [The Flying Trunk](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/35/)