--- title: And now all his friends deserted him, they could not walk with him i… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: And now all his friends deserted him, they could not walk with him in the streets; but one of them, who was very good-natured, sent him an old trunk with this message, "Pack up!" " Who acts: friends. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk, with its --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/35/7/) [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/) / 7 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 7 And now all his friends deserted him, they could not walk with him in the streets; but one of them, who was very good-natured, sent him an old trunk with this message, "Pack up!" " **Who acts:** friends · **What happens:** desert, not walk, be, send, pack up · **To what, where:** merchant, streets · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (friends), 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:pg27200:35:7 # text = And now all his friends deserted him, they could not walk with him in the streets; but one of them, who was very good-natured, sent him an old trunk with this message, "Pack up!" " 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ _ 3 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 5 det:predet _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 deserted desert VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 10 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obl _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 streets street NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 obl _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 24 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 26 very very ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 27 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 natured natured ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 32 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 trunk trunk NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 36 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 38 det _ _ 38 message message NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 " " PUNCT `` _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 Pack pack VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 31 parataxis _ _ 42 up up ADP RP _ 41 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ! ! PUNCT . _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 41 punct _ _ 45 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **desert** | past | merchant's friends | merchant | | | now | one of slippers *obl* | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme he=Source | | 2 | **not** **walk** | could | friends *= friend* | | | the streets | | with merchant | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in street=Trajectory | | 3 | **is** | past | | | | | | natured *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **send** | past | | merchant | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **pack up** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | 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 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/35/6/) - next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/35/8/) - ↑ back to [The Flying Trunk](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/35/)