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title: The boy had many sources of pleasure and enjoyment; the coast for mi… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The boy had many sources of pleasure and enjoyment; the coast for miles and miles was full of playthings, for it was a mosaic of pebbles, some red as coral or yellow as amber, and others again white and rounded like birds' eggs and smoothed and prepared by the sea. Who acts: boy, coast. A sentence o
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 22

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The boy had many sources of pleasure and enjoyment; the coast for miles and miles was full of playthings, for it was a mosaic of pebbles, some red as coral or yellow as amber, and others again white and rounded like birds' eggs and smoothed and prepared by the sea.

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**Who acts:** boy, coast · **What happens:** have, be, round, smooth, prepare · **To what, where:** many sources

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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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, coast), 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:pg27200:159:22
# text = The boy had many sources of pleasure and enjoyment; the coast for miles and miles was full of playthings, for it was a mosaic of pebbles, some red as coral or yellow as amber, and others again white and rounded like birds' eggs and smoothed and prepared by the sea.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	sources	source	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	enjoyment	enjoyment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	playthings	plaything	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	mosaic	mosaic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	31	det	_	_
31	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	parataxis	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	coral	coral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	obl	_	_
34	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	conj	_	_
36	as	as	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	amber	amber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
40	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nsubj	_	_
41	again	again	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	rounded	round	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	conj	_	_
45	like	like	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	'	's	PART	POS	_	46	case	_	_
48	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obl	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	smoothed	smooth	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	conj	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	50	conj	_	_
53	by	by	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the boy | many sources of pleasure and enjoyment |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent source=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | the coast for miles and miles |  |  |  |  | of playthings; full *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | coast |  |  |  |  | for a mosaic; of pebbles | tree rules |
| 4 | **round** | participle | the boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like birds's eggs | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **smooth** | participle | the boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **prepare** | participle | the boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the sea | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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