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C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, 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 (sea, sailors, stern, women), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:158:102 # text = It was a woman; the sailors said that she was quite dead, but the women thought they saw signs of life in her, so the stranger was carried across the sand-hills to the fisherman's cottage. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ; ; PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 sailors sailor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 9 that that SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 quite quite ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 ccomp _ _ 21 signs sign NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 so so ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 carried carry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 32 across across ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 34 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 hills hill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 fisherman fisherman NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 40 's 's PART POS _ 39 case _ _ 41 cottage cottage NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | sea | a woman | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the sailors | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | past | stern | | | | | dead *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the women | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **see** | past | women *= woman* | signs of life in stern | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sign=Stimulus | | 6 | **carry** | past · passive | | the stranger | | the sand hills | | to the fisherman's cottage | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to cottage=Destination | | 7 | **sign** | | | life in stern | | | | | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/158/101/) - next →: [sentence 103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/158/103/) - ↑ back to [A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/158/)