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title: A plank in the ship gave way, and the water rushed in; the crew flew… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A plank in the ship gave way, and the water rushed in; the crew flew to the pumps, and did their best to stop the leak. Who acts: plank, water, crew. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 39

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A plank in the ship gave way, and the water rushed in; the crew flew to the pumps, and did their best to stop the leak.

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**Who acts:** plank, water, crew · **What happens:** give, rush in, fly, do, stop · **To what, where:** way, pumps, best, leak

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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 (plank, water, crew), 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:pg27200:162:39
# text = A plank in the ship gave way, and the water rushed in; the crew flew to the pumps, and did their best to stop the leak.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	plank	plank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	rushed	rush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	crew	crew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	pumps	pump	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	23	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	leak	leak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | a plank in the ship | way |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme |
| 2 | **rush in** | participle | the water |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fly** | past | the crew |  |  | the pumps |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to pump=Destination |
| 4 | **do** | past | the crew *not said here* | Clara's best |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality |
| 5 | **stop** | to-infinitive | the crew *not said here* | the leak |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality leak=Eventuality |

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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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