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title: One day another ship was wrecked on the coast, and among other thing… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: One day another ship was wrecked on the coast, and among other things a chest filled with valuable flower bulbs was washed ashore. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 28

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One day another ship was wrecked on the coast, and among other things a chest filled with valuable flower bulbs was washed ashore.

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**What happens:** wreck, fill, wash · **To what, where:** ship, coast, chest

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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: 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:pg27200:159:28
# text = One day another ship was wrecked on the coast, and among other things a chest filled with valuable flower bulbs was washed ashore.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	wrecked	wreck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
12	among	among	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	valuable	valuable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	bulbs	bulb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	washed	wash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
24	ashore	ashore	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wreck** | past · passive |  | another ship |  | the coast | day |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **fill** | participle |  | a chest *not said here* |  |  |  | with valuable flower bulbs | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with bulb=Instrument |
| 3 | **wash** | past · passive |  | a chest |  |  |  | among other things; ashore *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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