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title: I once intended to equip a ship that was to sail all round the earth… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I once intended to equip a ship that was to sail all round the earth; but I did not do it, although I could have done so: and then, too, I smell so deliciously, for close before the gate bloom the most beautiful roses.” Who acts: I, ship. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 43

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I once intended to equip a ship that was to sail all round the earth; but I did not do it, although I could have done so: and then, too, I smell so deliciously, for close before the gate bloom the most beautiful roses.”

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**Who acts:** I, ship · **What happens:** intend, equip, be, not do, do, smell · **To what, where:** ship, beautiful roses

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, ship), 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:pg1597:25:43
# text = I once intended to equip a ship that was to sail all round the earth; but I did not do it, although I could have done so: and then, too, I smell so deliciously, for close before the gate bloom the most beautiful roses.”
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	advmod	_	_
3	intended	intend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	equip	equip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	sail	sail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	all	all	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	round	round	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux	_	_
28	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
32	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	too	too	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	smell	smell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
38	so	so	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	deliciously	deliciously	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	for	for	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	37	advmod	_	_
43	before	before	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
46	bloom	bloom	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	conj	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
48	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	49	advmod	_	_
49	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **intend** | past | I |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **equip** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | a ship |  |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ship=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** | past | a ship | a ship *not said here* |  |  |  | round the earth; sail *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **do** | past · do-support | I | ship |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 5 | **do** | could · perfect | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **smell** | present | I |  |  |  | then | close, deliciously *property* | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP.location V»: agent=Location |
| 7 | **bloom** | present | I *not said here* | the beautiful roses |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location rose=Theme |

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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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