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title: He had given up his certain appointment, and travelled for six month… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He had given up his certain appointment, and travelled for six months in foreign lands, and, on his return, had lived in great style, and got into terrible debt. Who acts: wealth. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, with its dependency t
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 192

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He had given up his certain appointment, and travelled for six months in foreign lands, and, on his return, had lived in great style, and got into terrible debt.

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**Who acts:** wealth · **What happens:** give up, travel, live, get, return · **To what, where:** wealth, foreign lands, return, terrible debt

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wealth), 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:pg27200:51:192
# text = He had given up his certain appointment, and travelled for six months in foreign lands, and, on his return, had lived in great style, and got into terrible debt.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	appointment	appointment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	travelled	travel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	style	style	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
32	into	into	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	debt	debt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give up** | past · perfect · passive |  | wealth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **travel** | past |  |  |  | foreign lands | month |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Trajectory |
| 3 | **live** | past · perfect |  |  |  | wealth's return |  | in great style | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in style=Location |
| 4 | **get** | past |  |  |  | terrible debt |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into debt=Destination |
| 5 | **return** |  | wealth |  |  |  |  |  | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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