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title: The wide sea is the highroad from nation to nation; journey in thoug… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The wide sea is the highroad from nation to nation; journey in thought; then, to sunny Spain. Who acts: wide sea. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 2

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The wide sea is the highroad from nation to nation; journey in thought; then, to sunny Spain.

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**Who acts:** wide sea · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** highroad, sunny Spain, nation

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. 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 (wide sea), 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:pg27200:158:2
# text = The wide sea is the highroad from nation to nation; journey in thought; then, to sunny Spain.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	highroad	highroad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	sunny	sunny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the wide sea | the highroad and journey in thought | sunny Spain | nation to nation |  |  | 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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