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title: It was impossible to render assistance; the sea rushed in upon the v… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It was impossible to render assistance; the sea rushed in upon the vessel, making a clean breach over her. Who acts: sea. 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 97

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It was impossible to render assistance; the sea rushed in upon the vessel, making a clean breach over her.

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**Who acts:** sea · **What happens:** be, render, rush in, make · **To what, where:** assistance, vessel, clean breach

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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 (sea), 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:pg27200:158:97
# text = It was impossible to render assistance; the sea rushed in upon the vessel, making a clean breach over her.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	expl	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	render	render	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	csubj	_	_
6	assistance	assistance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	in	in	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	breach	breach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	over	over	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | impossible *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **render** | to-infinitive |  | assistance |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent assistance=Theme |
| 3 | **rush in** | past | the sea |  |  | the vessel |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon vessel=Trajectory |
| 4 | **make** | gerund | the sea *not said here* | a clean breach |  |  |  | over ocean | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset breach=Product |

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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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