--- title: But still it was a shelter, and from within you could look far over… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: But still it was a shelter, and from within you could look far over the sea, which dashed wildly against the sea-wall on which the little house was built. Who acts: roof, you, sea. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop, with its dependency tree and th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/177/126/) [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/) / [The Snowdrop](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/177/) / 126 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 126 But still it was a shelter, and from within you could look far over the sea, which dashed wildly against the sea-wall on which the little house was built. **Who acts:** roof, you, sea · **What happens:** be, look, dash, build · **To what, where:** shelter, sea wall, little house This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (roof, you, sea), 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:pg27200:177:126 # text = But still it was a shelter, and from within you could look far over the sea, which dashed wildly against the sea-wall on which the little house was built. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 still still ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 shelter shelter NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 9 from from ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 within within ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 parataxis _ _ 14 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 13 advmod _ _ 15 over over ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 20 dashed dash VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 21 wildly wildly ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 against against ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 24 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 27 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 33 obl _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj:pass _ _ 32 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux:pass _ _ 33 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | roof | a shelter | | | still | | tree rules | | 2 | **look** | could | you | | | | | over the sea; far *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over sea=Theme | | 3 | **dash** | past | the sea | | | the sea wall | | wildly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against wall=Trajectory | | 4 | **build** | past · passive | | the little house | | the sea wall | | | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme on which=Source | 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 125](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/177/125/) - next →: [sentence 127](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/177/127/) - ↑ back to [The Snowdrop](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/177/)