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title: On the sand reef lay the wreck of a ship, which was covered with wat… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: On the sand reef lay the wreck of a ship, which was covered with water at high tide; the white figure head rested against the anchor, the sharp iron edge of which rose just above the surface. Who acts: white figure head, sharp iron edge. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 56

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On the sand reef lay the wreck of a ship, which was covered with water at high tide; the white figure head rested against the anchor, the sharp iron edge of which rose just above the surface.

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**Who acts:** white figure head, sharp iron edge · **What happens:** lie, cover, rest, rise, wreck · **To what, where:** wreck, sand reef, ship, high tide, anchor, surface

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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 (white figure head, sharp iron edge), 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:pg27200:162:56
# text = On the sand reef lay the wreck of a ship, which was covered with water at high tide; the white figure head rested against the anchor, the sharp iron edge of which rose just above the surface.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	reef	reef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wreck	wreck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	tide	tide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	rested	rest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
26	against	against	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	anchor	anchor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
36	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
37	just	just	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
38	above	above	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past |  | the wreck of a ship |  | the sand reef |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wreck=Theme |
| 2 | **cover** | past · passive |  | a ship |  | high tide |  | with water | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with water=Theme |
| 3 | **rest** | participle | the white figure head |  |  | the anchor |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against anchor=Location |
| 4 | **rise** | past | the sharp iron edge |  |  | the surface |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above surface=Location |
| 5 | **wreck** |  |  | a ship |  |  |  |  | nom wreck «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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