--- title: Some fishermen, coming with a boat, seized them and dragged them int… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Some fishermen, coming with a boat, seized them and dragged them into it. Who acts: fishermen. 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 clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/162/59/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/162/) / 59 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 59 Some fishermen, coming with a boat, seized them and dragged them into it. **Who acts:** fishermen · **What happens:** come, seize, drag · **To what, where:** waves, boat 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 (fishermen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:162:59 # text = Some fishermen, coming with a boat, seized them and dragged them into it. 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 fishermen fisherman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 coming come VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 9 seized seize VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 dragged drag VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 13 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 into into ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | gerund | some fishermen *not said here* | | | | | with a boat | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **seize** | past | some fishermen | waves *= wave* | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 3 | **drag** | past | some fishermen *not said here* | waves *= wave* | | boat | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/162/58/) - next →: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/162/60/) - ↑ back to [A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/162/)