--- title: One of this merchant's largest and finest ships was to be sent that… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: One of this merchant's largest and finest ships was to be sent that year to Stockholm, and it was arranged that the dear young couple, the daughter and the son-in-law, should travel in it to St. Petersburg. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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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: 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:pg27200:158:41 # text = One of this merchant's largest and finest ships was to be sent that year to Stockholm, and it was arranged that the dear young couple, the daughter and the son-in-law, should travel in it to St. Petersburg. 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 3 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 det _ _ 4 merchant merchant NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 largest large ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 9 amod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 finest fine ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 6 conj _ _ 9 ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 12 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 sent send VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 14 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 15 det _ _ 15 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl:unmarked _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 Stockholm Stockholm PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 arranged arrange VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ _ 23 that that SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 25 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 26 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 couple couple NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ SpaceAfter=No 36 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 travel travel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obl _ _ 43 to to ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 St. St. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 nmod:desc _ _ 45 Petersburg Petersburg PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send** | past · passive | | One of this merchant's largest ships | Stockholm | | year | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to stockholm=Destination | | 2 | **arrange** | past · passive | | merchant | | | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product | | 3 | **travel** | should | | | Petersburg St. | merchant | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Trajectory | 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 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/158/40/) - next →: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/158/42/) - ↑ back to [A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/158/)