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title: It was taken on board (for Peter Jensen was one of the crew) the ver… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It was taken on board (for Peter Jensen was one of the crew) the very same ship in which the young mate was to sail. Who acts: Peter, young mate. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 63

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It was taken on board (for Peter Jensen was one of the crew) the very same ship in which the young mate was to sail.

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**Who acts:** Peter, young mate · **What happens:** take, be · **To what, where:** It, board, same ship

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter, young mate), 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:pg27200:13:63
# text = It was taken on board (for Peter Jensen was one of the crew) the very same ship in which the young mate was to sail.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	Jensen	Jensen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	parataxis	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	crew	crew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	sail	sail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past · passive |  | It |  | board |  | the same ship *obl* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on board=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | past | Peter |  |  |  |  | for one; of the crew | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | the young mate |  |  | the same ship |  | sail *property* | tree rules |

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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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