---
title: Those on shore thought they heard cries for help from those on board… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Those on shore thought they heard cries for help from those on board, and could plainly distinguish the busy but useless efforts made by the stranded sailors. Who acts: Those, waves. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, with i
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/158/98/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/158/) / 98

# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 98

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Those on shore thought they heard cries for help from those on board, and could plainly distinguish the busy but useless efforts made by the stranded sailors.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Those, waves · **What happens:** think, hear, distinguish, make, strand · **To what, where:** cries, busy efforts · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Those, waves), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg27200:158:98
# text = Those on shore thought they heard cries for help from those on board, and could plainly distinguish the busy but useless efforts made by the stranded sailors.
1	Those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
7	cries	cry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	nmod	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	plainly	plainly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	distinguish	distinguish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
20	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	useless	useless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
23	efforts	effort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
24	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	stranded	strand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	amod	_	_
28	sailors	sailor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Those |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** | past | waves *= wave* | cries |  |  |  | for help from those | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cry=Stimulus |
| 3 | **distinguish** | could | waves *= wave* *not said here* | the busy efforts |  |  |  | plainly *property* | vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Attribute effort=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | participle |  | the busy efforts *not said here* |  |  |  | by the stranded sailors | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 5 | **strand** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/158/97/)
- next →: [sentence 99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/158/99/)
- ↑ back to [A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/158/)