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title: The sea--the great, the glorious sea, that dashed its long waves aga… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The sea--the great, the glorious sea, that dashed its long waves against the coast--was stretched out before him. Who acts: sea, height. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 64

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The sea--the great, the glorious sea, that dashed its long waves against the coast--was stretched out before him.

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**Who acts:** sea, height · **What happens:** dash, stretch out, wave · **To what, where:** long waves

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sea, height), 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:pg1597:18:64
# text = The sea--the great, the glorious sea, that dashed its long waves against the coast--was stretched out before him.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	glorious	glorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	dashed	dash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	against	against	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	before	before	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dash** | past | the sea and the glorious sea | height's long waves |  |  |  | against the coast | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent wave=Instrument against coast=Patient |
| 2 | **stretch out** | past · passive | the sea and the glorious sea *not said here* |  |  |  | before tone |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V» |
| 3 | **wave** |  | height |  |  |  |  |  | nom wave «event transitive»: poss=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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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