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title: Some wretched hovels for the Dutch sailors, resembling great boxes,… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Some wretched hovels for the Dutch sailors, resembling great boxes, and after which the place was named, lay about in confused disorder on the opposite bank. Who acts: Dutch sailors. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, with its dependency tree and 
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 77

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Some wretched hovels for the Dutch sailors, resembling great boxes, and after which the place was named, lay about in confused disorder on the opposite bank.

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**Who acts:** Dutch sailors · **What happens:** resemble, name, lay about · **To what, where:** great boxes, place, confused disorder

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, 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 (Dutch sailors), 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:pg1597:5:77
# text = Some wretched hovels for the Dutch sailors, resembling great boxes, and after which the place was named, lay about in confused disorder on the opposite bank.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	wretched	wretched	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hovels	hovel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Dutch	dutch	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	sailors	sailor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	resembling	resemble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	boxes	box	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	after	after	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
22	about	about	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	confused	confused	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	disorder	disorder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **resemble** | gerund | the Dutch sailors *not said here* | great boxes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **name** | past · passive |  | the place |  |  | after the Dutch sailors |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **lay about** | present |  |  |  | confused disorder |  | on the opposite bank; about *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in disorder=Destination |

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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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