--- title: He said he thought his cold would never leave him when he went out w… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: He said he thought his cold would never leave him when he went out woodcutting, for he was a master sawyer, and had to supply wood to the whole parish. Who acts: owner, cold. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, with its dependency tree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/82/81/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Mail-coach Passengers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/82/) / 81 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 81 He said he thought his cold would never leave him when he went out woodcutting, for he was a master sawyer, and had to supply wood to the whole parish. **Who acts:** owner, cold · **What happens:** say, think, not leave, go out, woodcut, be · **To what, where:** owner, wood, whole parish · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (owner, cold), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:82:81 # text = He said he thought his cold would never leave him when he went out woodcutting, for he was a master sawyer, and had to supply wood to the whole parish. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 cold cold NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 7 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ _ 10 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 14 out out ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 woodcutting woodcut VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 19 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 sawyer sawyer NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 supply supply VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 parish parish NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | owner | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | owner | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **not** **leave** | would | owner's cold | owner | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 4 | **go out** | past | owner | | | | | | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **woodcut** | gerund | owner *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **is** | past | owner | | | | | for a master sawyer | tree rules | | 7 | **have** | past | owner *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **supply** | to-infinitive | owner *not said here* | wood | the whole parish | | | | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent wood=Theme to parish=Recipient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/82/80/) - next →: [sentence 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/82/82/) - ↑ back to [The Mail-coach Passengers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/82/)