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title: When the steamboat winds along like a magic snail over the lakes, a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: When the steamboat winds along like a magic snail over the lakes, a stranger often comes to the church, and visits the burial vault; he asks the names of the kings, and they have a dead and forgotten sound. Who acts: steamboat, stranger, names. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-eighth Evening, sentence 9

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When the steamboat winds along like a magic snail over the lakes, a stranger often comes to the church, and visits the burial vault; he asks the names of the kings, and they have a dead and forgotten sound.

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**Who acts:** steamboat, stranger, names · **What happens:** wind, come, visit, ask, have, forget · **To what, where:** church, burial vault, names, dead sound, kings

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-eighth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (steamboat, stranger, names), 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:pg27200:119:9
# text = When the steamboat winds along like a magic snail over the lakes, a stranger often comes to the church, and visits the burial vault; he asks the names of the kings, and they have a dead and forgotten sound.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	steamboat	steamboat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	winds	wind	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
5	along	along	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	snail	snail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	over	over	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	often	often	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	visits	visit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	burial	burial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	vault	vault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
40	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	conj	_	_
43	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wind** | present | the steamboat |  |  |  |  | like a magic snail over the lakes; along *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | present | a stranger |  |  | the church |  | often *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **visit** | present |  | the burial vault |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vault=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | stranger | the names of the kings |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient |
| 5 | **have** | present | names *= name* | a dead sound |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Patient |
| 6 | **forget** | participle | names *= name* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **name** |  |  | the kings |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=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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