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title: The ship had stranded some distance south of Nissum Bay, and the cru… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The ship had stranded some distance south of Nissum Bay, and the cruel, inhuman days, when, as we have just said, the inhabitants of Jutland treated the shipwrecked people so crudely were past, long ago. Who acts: we, inhabitants. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Ander
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 3

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The ship had stranded some distance south of Nissum Bay, and the cruel, inhuman days, when, as we have just said, the inhabitants of Jutland treated the shipwrecked people so crudely were past, long ago.

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**Who acts:** we, inhabitants · **What happens:** strand, say, treat, shipwreck, be · **To what, where:** ship, shipwrecked people · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (we, inhabitants), 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:pg27200:159:3
# text = The ship had stranded some distance south of Nissum Bay, and the cruel, inhuman days, when, as we have just said, the inhabitants of Jutland treated the shipwrecked people so crudely were past, long ago.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	stranded	strand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	south	south	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Nissum	Nissum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Bay	Bay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	inhuman	inhuman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	just	just	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Jutland	Jutland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	treated	treat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	ccomp	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	shipwrecked	shipwreck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	amod	_	_
34	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
35	so	so	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	crudely	crudely	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
37	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
38	past	past	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	41	advmod	_	_
41	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strand** | past · perfect · passive |  | the ship |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · perfect | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **treat** | past | the inhabitants of Jutland |  | the shipwrecked people |  |  | ago *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient |
| 4 | **shipwreck** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | crudely, past *property* | tree rules |

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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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