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title: The storms threw vessel after vessel on the fatal reefs; there were… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The storms threw vessel after vessel on the fatal reefs; there were snow-storm and sand-storms; the sand flew up to the houses, blocking the entrances, so that people had to creep up through the chimneys; that was nothing at all remarkable here. Who acts: storms, snow storm, sand, people. A sentence
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 14

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The storms threw vessel after vessel on the fatal reefs; there were snow-storm and sand-storms; the sand flew up to the houses, blocking the entrances, so that people had to creep up through the chimneys; that was nothing at all remarkable here.

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**Who acts:** storms, snow storm, sand, people, that · **What happens:** throw, be, fly up, block, have, creep up · **To what, where:** vessel, fatal reefs, entrances, chimneys, nothing, all

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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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (storms, snow storm, sand, people), 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:pg27200:162:14
# text = The storms threw vessel after vessel on the fatal reefs; there were snow-storm and sand-storms; the sand flew up to the houses, blocking the entrances, so that people had to creep up through the chimneys; that was nothing at all remarkable here.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	storms	storm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	fatal	fatal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	reefs	reef	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
13	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	storms	storm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	blocking	block	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	entrances	entrance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	37	mark	_	_
35	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	fixed	_	_
36	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
37	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	creep	creep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	xcomp	_	_
40	up	up	ADP	RP	_	39	compound:prt	_	_
41	through	through	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	chimneys	chimney	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	47	punct	_	_
45	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	47	nsubj	_	_
46	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
47	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	parataxis	_	_
48	at	at	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	47	nmod	_	_
50	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
51	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | past | the storms | vessel |  | the fatal reefs; here | after vessel |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent vessel=Theme on reef=Destination |
| 2 | **be** | past | snow storm and sand storms |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fly up** | past | the sand |  |  |  |  | to the houses *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to house=Result |
| 4 | **block** | gerund | the sand *not said here* | the entrances |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer entrance=Theme |
| 5 | **have** | past | people |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **creep up** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  | the chimneys |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through chimney=Trajectory |
| 7 | **is a** | past | that | nothing |  | all |  |  | 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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