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title: Even the bleached fishes' skeletons, the water plants dried by the w… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Even the bleached fishes' skeletons, the water plants dried by the wind, and seaweed, white and shining long linen-like bands waving between the stones--all these seemed made to give pleasure and occupation for the boy's thoughts, and he had an intelligent mind; many great talents lay dormant in him
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 23

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Even the bleached fishes' skeletons, the water plants dried by the wind, and seaweed, white and shining long linen-like bands waving between the stones--all these seemed made to give pleasure and occupation for the boy's thoughts, and he had an intelligent mind; many great talents lay dormant in him.

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**Who acts:** skeletons, long like bands, these, boy · **What happens:** bleach, dry, shine, wave, seem, make · **To what, where:** water plants, long like bands, stones, pleasure, intelligent mind

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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 (skeletons, long like bands, these, boy), 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:pg27200:159:23
# text = Even the bleached fishes' skeletons, the water plants dried by the wind, and seaweed, white and shining long linen-like bands waving between the stones--all these seemed made to give pleasure and occupation for the boy's thoughts, and he had an intelligent mind; many great talents lay dormant in him.
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	bleached	bleach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	fishes	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	skeletons	skeleton	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	appos	_	_
11	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	seaweed	seaweed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	_
22	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
23	linen	linen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	bands	band	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
27	waving	wave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	acl	_	_
28	between	between	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	34	det:predet	_	_
33	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	34	nsubj	_	_
34	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
35	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	xcomp	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	_
38	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	occupation	occupation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	_
41	for	for	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	's	's	PART	POS	_	43	case	_	_
45	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
48	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
49	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
50	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	intelligent	intelligent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
54	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
55	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	talents	talent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	nsubj	_	_
57	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
58	dormant	dormant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	xcomp	_	_
59	in	in	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
60	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	57	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bleach** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **dry** | participle |  | the water plants *not said here* |  |  |  | by the wind | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **shine** | gerund | the bleached fishes's skeletons and seaweed *not said here* | long like bands |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent band=Theme |
| 4 | **wave** | gerund | long like bands *not said here* |  |  | the stones |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between stone=Location |
| 5 | **seem** | past | these |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 6 | **make** | participle | these *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **give** | to-infinitive | these *not said here* | pleasure and occupation |  |  |  | for the boy's thoughts | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent pleasure=Theme for thought=Asset |
| 8 | **have** | past | boy | a intelligent mind |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient |
| 9 | **lay** | present | the bleached fishes's skeletons and seaweed |  |  |  |  | dormant *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **think** |  | the boy |  |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=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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