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title: The Viking did not return on that day, nor the next; he was, however… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The Viking did not return on that day, nor the next; he was, however, on the way home; but the wind, so favorable to the storks, was against him; for it blew towards the south. Who acts: Viking, cat, wind. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Dau
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 93

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The Viking did not return on that day, nor the next; he was, however, on the way home; but the wind, so favorable to the storks, was against him; for it blew towards the south.

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**Who acts:** Viking, cat, wind · **What happens:** not return, be, blow · **To what, where:** way

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Viking, cat, wind), 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:pg27200:83:93
# text = The Viking did not return on that day, nor the next; he was, however, on the way home; but the wind, so favorable to the storks, was against him; for it blew towards the south.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Viking	Viking	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	12	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	however	however	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
22	home	home	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	favorable	favorable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	storks	stork	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
35	against	against	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
41	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **return** | past · do-support | the Viking |  |  |  | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | cat |  |  | the way |  | home, however *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | the wind |  |  |  |  | against cat | tree rules |
| 4 | **blow** | past | Viking |  |  |  |  | towards the south | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent towards south=Recipient |

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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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