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title: At home that evening he spoke of travel in the wide world, and of th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: At home that evening he spoke of travel in the wide world, and of the golden treasure that lay hidden for him in his violin. Who acts: son, golden treasure. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 139

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At home that evening he spoke of travel in the wide world, and of the golden treasure that lay hidden for him in his violin.

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**Who acts:** son, golden treasure · **What happens:** speak, lie, hide · **To what, where:** home, golden treasure, violin · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, golden treasure), 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:pg27200:39:139
# text = At home that evening he spoke of travel in the wide world, and of the golden treasure that lay hidden for him in his violin.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	travel	travel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	violin	violin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | son |  |  | home  that evening |  | of travel in the wide world; of the golden treasure | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lie** | past | the golden treasure |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hide** | participle |  | the golden treasure *not said here* |  | son's violin |  | for son | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in violin=Location |

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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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