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title: Clara sat on deck, and saw the sand-hills gradually appearing in the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Clara sat on deck, and saw the sand-hills gradually appearing in the distance; the church and lighthouse looked like a heron and a swan rising from the blue waters. Who acts: Clara, church, swan. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, p
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 36

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Clara sat on deck, and saw the sand-hills gradually appearing in the distance; the church and lighthouse looked like a heron and a swan rising from the blue waters.

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**Who acts:** Clara, church, swan · **What happens:** sit, see, appear, look, rise · **To what, where:** deck, sand hills, blue waters

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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 (Clara, church, swan), 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:pg27200:162:36
# text = Clara sat on deck, and saw the sand-hills gradually appearing in the distance; the church and lighthouse looked like a heron and a swan rising from the blue waters.
1	Clara	Clara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	deck	deck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
12	gradually	gradually	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	appearing	appear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	lighthouse	lighthouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
23	like	like	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	heron	heron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	swan	swan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
29	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	acl	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | Clara |  |  | deck |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on deck=Location |
| 2 | **see** | past | Clara *not said here* | the sand hills |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hill=Stimulus |
| 3 | **appear** | gerund | Clara *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in the distance; gradually *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in distance=Location |
| 4 | **look** | past | the church and lighthouse |  |  |  |  | like a heron and a swan | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **rise** | gerund | a swan *not said here* |  |  | the blue waters |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from water=Initial\_Location |

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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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