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title: A few neighbours also came out, and helped each other to draw the bo… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A few neighbours also came out, and helped each other to draw the boats higher up on the beach. Who acts: few neighbours, each, boats. 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 c
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 84

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A few neighbours also came out, and helped each other to draw the boats higher up on the beach.

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**Who acts:** few neighbours, each, boats · **What happens:** come out, help, draw, higher up · **To what, where:** each, beach

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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 (few neighbours, each, boats), 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:pg27200:158:84
# text = A few neighbours also came out, and helped each other to draw the boats higher up on the beach.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	9	obj	_	_
11	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	fixed	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	draw	draw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	boats	boat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	higher	higher	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** | past | a few neighbours |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **help** | past | a few neighbours *not said here* | each |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent each=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 3 | **draw** | to-infinitive | each *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **higher up** | present | the boats |  |  | the beach |  |  | 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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