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title: We look at the numerous ships, and at the Swedish coast on the oppos… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: We look at the numerous ships, and at the Swedish coast on the opposite side of the sound, rising far above the surface of the waters which mirror the glow of the evening sky. Who acts: We, sound, evening sky. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Sunbeam and 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Sunbeam and the Captive, sentence 3

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We look at the numerous ships, and at the Swedish coast on the opposite side of the sound, rising far above the surface of the waters which mirror the glow of the evening sky.

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**Who acts:** We, sound, evening sky · **What happens:** look, rise, glow · **To what, where:** surface

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Sunbeam and the Captive. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, sound, evening sky), 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:pg27200:186:3
# text = We look at the numerous ships, and at the Swedish coast on the opposite side of the sound, rising far above the surface of the waters which mirror the glow of the evening sky.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Swedish	Swedish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
22	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
23	above	above	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
29	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	30	det	_	_
30	mirror	mirror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	glow	glow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present | We |  |  |  |  | at the Swedish coast on the opposite side of the sound; at the numerous ships | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at ship=Theme |
| 2 | **rise** | gerund | the sound *not said here* |  |  | the surface of the waters and which mirror |  | far *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above surface=Location |
| 3 | **glow** |  | the evening sky |  |  |  |  |  | nom glow «state intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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