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title: Many boats, the crews all furnished with torches, glided over the si… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Many boats, the crews all furnished with torches, glided over the silent expanse--but these fires had not been kindled for catching fish, for everything had a festive look. Who acts: Many boats, everything. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-third Evenin
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-third Evening, sentence 33

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Many boats, the crews all furnished with torches, glided over the silent expanse--but these fires had not been kindled for catching fish, for everything had a festive look.

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**Who acts:** Many boats, everything · **What happens:** furnish, glide, not kindle, catch, have · **To what, where:** torches, silent expanse, fires, fish, festive look

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-third Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many boats, everything), 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:pg27200:114:33
# text = Many boats, the crews all furnished with torches, glided over the silent expanse--but these fires had not been kindled for catching fish, for everything had a festive look.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	boats	boat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	crews	crew	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	all	all	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	furnished	furnish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	torches	torch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	glided	glide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
12	over	over	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	expanse	expanse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	fires	fire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
22	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	kindled	kindle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
24	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	catching	catch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
26	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	30	nsubj	_	_
30	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	festive	festive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **furnish** | participle | Many boats and the crews |  |  |  |  | with torches; all *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with torch=Theme |
| 2 | **glide** | participle |  | torches *not said here* |  | the silent expanse |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over expanse=Trajectory |
| 3 | **not** **kindle** | past · perfect · passive |  | this fires |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **catch** | gerund |  | fish |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme |
| 5 | **have** | past | everything | a festive look |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Patient |

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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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