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title: So he went and bought rockets and crackers, and all sorts of fire-wo… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: So he went and bought rockets and crackers, and all sorts of fire-works that could be thought of, packed them in his trunk, and flew up with it into the air. Who acts: son, sorts. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk, with its dependency tree and
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 94

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So he went and bought rockets and crackers, and all sorts of fire-works that could be thought of, packed them in his trunk, and flew up with it into the air.

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**Who acts:** son, sorts · **What happens:** go, buy, think, pack, fly up, sort · **To what, where:** rockets, fire works, trunk, air

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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 (son, sorts), 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:pg27200:35:94
# text = So he went and bought rockets and crackers, and all sorts of fire-works that could be thought of, packed them in his trunk, and flew up with it into the air.
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	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	bought	buy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	rockets	rocket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	crackers	cracker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	works	work	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	packed	pack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
31	up	up	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	_
34	into	into	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | son |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **buy** | past | son *not said here* | rockets and crackers |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rocket=Theme |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | could · passive |  | fire works |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **pack** | participle | all sorts of fire works | rockets *= rocket* |  | son's trunk |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in trunk=Destination |
| 5 | **fly up** | past | son *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into the air *result*; with trunk | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into air=Result |
| 6 | **sort** |  |  | fire works |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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