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title: It is the coast of Ireland that they see, but the passengers are sti… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It is the coast of Ireland that they see, but the passengers are still asleep; they will not be called till they are exactly over England. Who acts: wire, trader, passengers. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In a Thousand Years, with its dependency tree and t
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In a Thousand Years, sentence 11

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It is the coast of Ireland that they see, but the passengers are still asleep; they will not be called till they are exactly over England.

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**Who acts:** wire, trader, passengers · **What happens:** be, see, not call · **To what, where:** coast, that, passengers, England · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In a Thousand Years. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wire, trader, passengers), 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:pg27200:191:11
# text = It is the coast of Ireland that they see, but the passengers are still asleep; they will not be called till they are exactly over England.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obj	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	passengers	passenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	still	still	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
23	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	over	over	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | wire | the coast |  |  |  | of Ireland | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | present | trader | that |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | present | the passengers |  |  |  | still | asleep *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **call** | future · passive |  | passengers *= passenger* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 5 | **is** | present | passengers *= passenger* |  |  | England |  | exactly *property* | tree rules |

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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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