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title: The ship sailed on the high seas between Scotland and Jutland; then… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The ship sailed on the high seas between Scotland and Jutland; then the wind increased, just as it did in the old song of "The King of England's Son." Who acts: ship, wind, King. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, with its d
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 53

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The ship sailed on the high seas between Scotland and Jutland; then the wind increased, just as it did in the old song of "The King of England's Son."

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**Who acts:** ship, wind, King · **What happens:** sail, increase, do, sing · **To what, where:** high seas, old song

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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 (ship, wind, King), 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:pg27200:158:53
# text = The ship sailed on the high seas between Scotland and Jutland; then the wind increased, just as it did in the old song of "The King of England's Son."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	seas	sea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	between	between	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	Jutland	Jutland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	increased	increase	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	just	just	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	's	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	Son	Son	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sail** | past | the ship |  |  | the high seas between Scotland and Jutland |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **increase** | past | the wind |  |  |  | then |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **do** | past | wind |  |  | the old song of the King of England's Son |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **sing** |  | the King of England's Son |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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