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title: These words would aptly describe the vessel from Spain, for here was… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: These words would aptly describe the vessel from Spain, for here was the same luxury, and the same parting thought naturally arose: Who acts: words, same parting. 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 a
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 47

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These words would aptly describe the vessel from Spain, for here was the same luxury, and the same parting thought naturally arose:

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**Who acts:** words, same parting · **What happens:** describe, be, think, arise · **To what, where:** vessel, Spain, same luxury · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (words, same parting), 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:pg27200:158:47
# text = These words would aptly describe the vessel from Spain, for here was the same luxury, and the same parting thought naturally arose:
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	aptly	aptly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	describe	describe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	obl	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	luxury	luxury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	parting	parting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
23	naturally	naturally	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **describe** | would | this words | the vessel |  | Spain |  | aptly *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent vessel=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the same luxury |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the same parting |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **arise** | past |  |  |  |  |  | naturally *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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