--- title: Merchant Bronne read aloud, from an old chronicle, about Prince Haml… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Merchant Bronne read aloud, from an old chronicle, about Prince Hamlet of Denmark, who had come over from England, landed near Bovbjerg, and fought a battle; close by Ramme was his grave, only a few miles from the place where the eel-breeder lived; hundreds of barrow rose there from the heath, formi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/162/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/162/) / 16 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 16 Merchant Bronne read aloud, from an old chronicle, about Prince Hamlet of Denmark, who had come over from England, landed near Bovbjerg, and fought a battle; close by Ramme was his grave, only a few miles from the place where the eel-breeder lived; hundreds of barrow rose there from the heath, forming as it were an enormous churchyard. **Who acts:** Merchant, Prince Hamlet, eel breeder, hundreds, breeder · **What happens:** read, come over, land, fight, be, live · **To what, where:** England, Bovbjerg, battle, grave, heath, enormous churchyard 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 (Merchant, Prince Hamlet, eel breeder, hundreds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:162:16 # text = Merchant Bronne read aloud, from an old chronicle, about Prince Hamlet of Denmark, who had come over from England, landed near Bovbjerg, and fought a battle; close by Ramme was his grave, only a few miles from the place where the eel-breeder lived; hundreds of barrow rose there from the heath, forming as it were an enormous churchyard. 1 Merchant merchant NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Bronne Bronne PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 3 read read VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 aloud aloud ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 chronicle chronicle NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 about about ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 Hamlet Hamlet PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Denmark Denmark PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 18 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 acl _ _ 20 over over ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 from from ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 landed land VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 25 near near ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 Bovbjerg Bovbjerg PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 fought fight VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 battle battle NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 csubj _ _ 34 by by ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 Ramme Ramme PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 36 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 37 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 grave grave NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 40 only only ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 miles mile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 conj _ _ 44 from from ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod _ _ 47 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 52 advmod _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 49 eel eel NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 50 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 breeder breeder NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nsubj _ _ 52 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 ; ; PUNCT : _ 57 punct _ _ 54 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 57 nsubj _ _ 55 of of ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 56 barrow barrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 nmod _ _ 57 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 58 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 57 advmod _ _ 59 from from ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 60 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 61 det _ _ 61 heath heath NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 62 , , PUNCT , _ 63 punct _ _ 63 forming form VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 57 advcl _ _ 64 as as SCONJ IN _ 69 mark _ _ 65 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 69 nsubj _ _ 66 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 69 cop _ _ 67 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 69 det _ _ 68 enormous enormous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 69 amod _ _ 69 churchyard churchyard NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 70 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **read** | past | Merchant | | | | | aloud *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **come over** | past · perfect | Prince Hamlet of Denmark | | | England | | over *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from england=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **land** | past | | | | Bovbjerg | | | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **fight** | past | | a battle | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Co-Agent | | 5 | **is a** | past | | Merchant's grave and a few miles from the place | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **live** | past | the eel breeder | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **rise** | past | hundreds of barrow | | | the heath; there | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from heath=Initial\_Location | | 8 | **form** | gerund | hundreds of barrow *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **is a** | past | breeder | a enormous churchyard | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/162/15/) - next →: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/162/17/) - ↑ back to [A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/162/)