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title: Thousands of seals sport there, the walrus shall lie at thy feet, an… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Thousands of seals sport there, the walrus shall lie at thy feet, and the hunt will be safe and merry!' Who acts: sport, hunt, Thousands. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ninth Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ninth Evening, sentence 26

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Thousands of seals sport there, the walrus shall lie at thy feet, and the hunt will be safe and merry!'

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**Who acts:** sport, hunt, Thousands · **What happens:** lie, be, sport · **To what, where:** feet

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ninth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sport, hunt, Thousands), 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:pg27200:100:26
# text = Thousands of seals sport there, the walrus shall lie at thy feet, and the hunt will be safe and merry!'
1	Thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	seals	seal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	walrus	walrus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	hunt	hunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
20	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | shall | Thousands of seals's sport |  |  | thy feet |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location |
| 2 | **is** | future | the hunt |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | the hunt *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sport** |  | Thousands of seals |  |  |  |  |  | nom sport «act intransitive»: 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:** «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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