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title: The sand-banks extend a whole mile from the shore, beneath the water… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The sand-banks extend a whole mile from the shore, beneath the water, outside these banks; many ships could be seen that day, and with the aid of his telescope the old man thought he descried his own ship, the Karen Bronne. Who acts: sand banks, old man, Merchant. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 34

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The sand-banks extend a whole mile from the shore, beneath the water, outside these banks; many ships could be seen that day, and with the aid of his telescope the old man thought he descried his own ship, the Karen Bronne.

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**Who acts:** sand banks, old man, Merchant · **What happens:** extend, see, think, descry · **To what, where:** whole mile, shore, many ships, own ship · **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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sand banks, old man, Merchant), 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:pg27200:162:34
# text = The sand-banks extend a whole mile from the shore, beneath the water, outside these banks; many ships could be seen that day, and with the aid of his telescope the old man thought he descried his own ship, the Karen Bronne.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	extend	extend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
21	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
26	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	telescope	telescope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
39	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	descried	descry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	ccomp	_	_
42	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
43	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	Karen	Karen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	_
48	Bronne	Bronne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **extend** | present | the sand banks | a whole mile and the water and this banks |  | the shore |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent mile=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | could · passive |  | many ships |  |  | day |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the old man |  |  |  |  | with the aid of Merchant's telescope | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **descry** | past | Merchant | Merchant's own ship |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ship=Stimulus |

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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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