Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 8

He broke off a spray and stuck it in his hat; he determined to be merry and light-hearted, for he was going out into the wide world--"a little way out, beyond the bay," as the young eels had said. "

Who acts: sea · What happens: break off, stick, determine, be, go out, say · To what, where: spray, hat, little way, wide world, young eels · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sea), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

Pragmatics

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