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title: He had a long way to go before he reached the river, and Little Clau… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He had a long way to go before he reached the river, and Little Claus was not a very light weight to carry. Who acts: Claus, Little Claus. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 159

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He had a long way to go before he reached the river, and Little Claus was not a very light weight to carry.

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**Who acts:** Claus, Little Claus · **What happens:** have, go, reach, not be, carry · **To what, where:** long way, river, light weight

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Claus, Little Claus), 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:pg27200:71:159
# text = He had a long way to go before he reached the river, and Little Claus was not a very light weight to carry.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
15	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Claus	Claus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	very	very	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Claus | a long way |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient |
| 2 | **go** | to-infinitive | Claus *not said here* | a long way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **reach** | past | Claus | the river |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent river=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **is a** | past | Little Claus | a light weight |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **carry** | to-infinitive | Claus *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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