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title: Carrying his light knapsack, which contained his Sunday clothes, on… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Carrying his light knapsack, which contained his Sunday clothes, on his back, and with his musket and his game-bag over his shoulder, Rudy started to take the shortest way across the mountain. Who acts: light knapsack, Rudy. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 81

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Carrying his light knapsack, which contained his Sunday clothes, on his back, and with his musket and his game-bag over his shoulder, Rudy started to take the shortest way across the mountain.

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**Who acts:** light knapsack, Rudy · **What happens:** carry, contain, start, take · **To what, where:** light knapsack, Sunday clothes, back, shortest way, mountain

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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 (light knapsack, Rudy), 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:pg27200:55:81
# text = Carrying his light knapsack, which contained his Sunday clothes, on his back, and with his musket and his game-bag over his shoulder, Rudy started to take the shortest way across the mountain.
1	Carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	knapsack	knapsack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	contained	contain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	musket	musket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
22	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
25	over	over	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	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
29	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	shortest	short	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	35	amod	_	_
35	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
36	across	across	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | gerund |  | Babette's light knapsack |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knapsack=Theme |
| 2 | **contain** | past | Babette's light knapsack | Babette's Sunday clothes |  | Babette's back |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot clothes=Theme |
| 3 | **start** | past | Rudy |  |  |  |  | with Babette's musket and Babette's game bag over Babette's shoulder | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **take** | to-infinitive | Rudy *not said here* | the shortest way |  | the mountain |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme |

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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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