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title: The golden anchor forth they threw; Towards Denmark the west wind bl… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The golden anchor forth they threw; Towards Denmark the west wind blew." Who acts: golden anchor, Towards Denmark. 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 55

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The golden anchor forth they threw; Towards Denmark the west wind blew."

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**Who acts:** golden anchor, Towards Denmark · **What happens:** throw, blow

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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 (golden anchor, Towards Denmark), 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:pg27200:158:55
# text = The golden anchor forth they threw; Towards Denmark the west wind blew."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	anchor	anchor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	Towards	Towards	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Denmark	Denmark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
13	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | past | the golden anchor |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **blow** | past | Towards Denmark |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |

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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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