---
title: There were Northmen, from Norway, who steered westward through mist… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There were Northmen, from Norway, who steered westward through mist and storm to an unknown land, where, behind ice and snow, they found plants and green meadows, and bushes with blue-black grapes--sloe bushes. Who acts: Northmen, Norway, ice. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» b
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/206/48/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [What One Can Invent](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/206/) / 48

# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What One Can Invent, sentence 48

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
There were Northmen, from Norway, who steered westward through mist and storm to an unknown land, where, behind ice and snow, they found plants and green meadows, and bushes with blue-black grapes--sloe bushes.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Northmen, Norway, ice · **What happens:** be, steer, find · **To what, where:** Norway, mist, plants

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What One Can Invent. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Northmen, Norway, ice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg27200:206:48
# text = There were Northmen, from Norway, who steered westward through mist and storm to an unknown land, where, behind ice and snow, they found plants and green meadows, and bushes with blue-black grapes--sloe bushes.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Northmen	Northmen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Norway	Norway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	steered	steer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	westward	westward	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	through	through	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	mist	mist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
20	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
29	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
37	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	grapes	grape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	sloe	sloe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | Northmen |  |  | Norway; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **steer** | past | Norway |  |  | mist and storm |  | to a unknown land; westward *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent through mist=Destination |
| 3 | **find** | past | ice and snow | plants and green meadows and bushes with black grapes and sloe bushes |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Topic |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/206/47/)
- next →: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/206/49/)
- ↑ back to [What One Can Invent](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/206/)