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title: He foresaw that he should have to stay there till morning, and then… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He foresaw that he should have to stay there till morning, and then they must send for a smith to file away the iron bars, and that would be a work of time. Who acts: creature, goloshes, that. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusu
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, sentence 20

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He foresaw that he should have to stay there till morning, and then they must send for a smith to file away the iron bars, and that would be a work of time.

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**Who acts:** creature, goloshes, that · **What happens:** foresee, have, stay, send, file away, be · **To what, where:** iron bars, work

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (creature, goloshes, that), 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:pg27200:43:20
# text = He foresaw that he should have to stay there till morning, and then they must send for a smith to file away the iron bars, and that would be a work of time.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	foresaw	foresee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
10	till	till	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	smith	smith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	file	file	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
23	away	away	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	bars	bar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	nsubj	_	_
30	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	cop	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **foresee** | past | creature |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | should | creature |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **stay** | to-infinitive | creature *not said here* |  |  | there | morning |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **send** | must | goloshes *= golosh* |  |  |  | then | for a smith | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **file away** | to-infinitive | goloshes *= golosh* *not said here* | the iron bars |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bar=Patient |
| 6 | **is a** | would | that | a work |  |  | time |  | tree rules |

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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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