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title: The wind blew towards the land, the tide was in their favour, but it… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The wind blew towards the land, the tide was in their favour, but it was all useless; the ship could not be saved. Who acts: wind, tide. 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 pragmatics of every
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 42

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The wind blew towards the land, the tide was in their favour, but it was all useless; the ship could not be saved.

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**Who acts:** wind, tide · **What happens:** blow, be, not save · **To what, where:** favour, ship

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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 (wind, tide), 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:pg27200:162:42
# text = The wind blew towards the land, the tide was in their favour, but it was all useless; the ship could not be saved.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	tide	tide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	all	all	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	useless	useless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	saved	save	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | past | the wind |  |  |  |  | towards the land | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent towards land=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | past | the tide |  |  | Clara's favour |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | tide |  |  |  |  | all, useless *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **save** | could · passive |  | the ship |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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