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title: For more than a year one of these ships had been pushing its way nor… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: For more than a year one of these ships had been pushing its way northward, amid snow and ice, and the sailors had endured many hardships; till at length winter set in, and the sun entirely disappeared; for many weeks there would be constant night. Who acts: sailors, sun. A sentence of «Fairy Tales 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea, sentence 2

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For more than a year one of these ships had been pushing its way northward, amid snow and ice, and the sailors had endured many hardships; till at length winter set in, and the sun entirely disappeared; for many weeks there would be constant night.

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**Who acts:** sailors, sun · **What happens:** push, endure, set in, disappear, be · **To what, where:** way, many hardships, length winter, constant night

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sailors, sun), 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:pg27200:205:2
# text = For more than a year one of these ships had been pushing its way northward, amid snow and ice, and the sailors had endured many hardships; till at length winter set in, and the sun entirely disappeared; for many weeks there would be constant night.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	6	advmod	_	_
3	than	than	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	aux	_	_
12	pushing	push	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	northward	northward	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	amid	amid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	parataxis	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	sailors	sailor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	endured	endure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
27	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	hardships	hardship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
30	till	till	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
34	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
40	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	45	punct	_	_
43	for	for	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	obl	_	_
46	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	48	expl	_	_
47	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
48	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	cop	_	_
49	constant	constant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **push** | past · perfect · progressive |  | pole's way |  |  |  | for a year one of this ships; northward *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme |
| 2 | **endure** | past · perfect | the sailors | many hardships |  |  | winter |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hardship=Circumstance |
| 3 | **set in** | participle |  | length winter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **disappear** | past | the sun |  |  |  |  | entirely *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | infinitive |  | constant night |  |  | week |  | 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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