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title: So he was obliged to go to the mill and make inquiries, and there he… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: So he was obliged to go to the mill and make inquiries, and there he heard that the miller had gone on a journey to Interlachen, and taken Babette with him, to the great shooting festival, which began that morning, and would continue for eight days, and that people from all the German settlements wo
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 69

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So he was obliged to go to the mill and make inquiries, and there he heard that the miller had gone on a journey to Interlachen, and taken Babette with him, to the great shooting festival, which began that morning, and would continue for eight days, and that people from all the German settlements would be there.

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**Who acts:** Rudy, miller, great shooting festival, people · **What happens:** oblige, go, make, hear, take, begin · **To what, where:** Rudy, mill, inquiries, Interlachen, journey, Babette · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rudy, miller, great shooting festival, people), 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:pg27200:55:69
# text = So he was obliged to go to the mill and make inquiries, and there he heard that the miller had gone on a journey to Interlachen, and taken Babette with him, to the great shooting festival, which began that morning, and would continue for eight days, and that people from all the German settlements would be there.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
12	inquiries	inquiry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	miller	miller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	ccomp	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Interlachen	Interlachen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
31	Babette	Babette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
37	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
38	shooting	shooting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	festival	festival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	42	nsubj	_	_
42	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	acl:relcl	_	_
43	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	44	det	_	_
44	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
47	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
48	continue	continue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
49	for	for	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	51	nummod	_	_
51	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	63	cc	_	_
54	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	63	mark	_	_
55	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	63	nsubj	_	_
56	from	from	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
57	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	60	det:predet	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
59	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
60	settlements	settlement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	nmod	_	_
61	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	63	aux	_	_
62	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	63	cop	_	_
63	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **oblige** | past · passive |  | Rudy |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result |
| 2 | **go** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the mill |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to mill=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **make** | infinitive |  | inquiries |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset inquiry=Product |
| 4 | **hear** | past | Rudy |  |  | there |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **go** | past · perfect | the miller |  | Interlachen | a journey |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to interlachen=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **take** | participle | Rudy *not said here* |  | Babette |  |  | with Rudy | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument babette=Destination |
| 7 | **begin** | past | the great shooting festival |  |  |  | morning |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 8 | **continue** | would | Rudy *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **is** | would | people from all German settlements |  |  |  |  | there *property* | 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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