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title: And he spent seven years in the construction of wonderful ships to s… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And he spent seven years in the construction of wonderful ships to sail through the air, and had darts cast from the hardest steel to break the walls of heaven with. Who acts: prince, darts. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wicked Prince, with its depende
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wicked Prince, sentence 26

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And he spent seven years in the construction of wonderful ships to sail through the air, and had darts cast from the hardest steel to break the walls of heaven with.

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**Who acts:** prince, darts · **What happens:** spend, sail, have, cast, break, construct · **To what, where:** construction, air, darts, hardest steel, walls, wonderful ships

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wicked Prince. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, darts), 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:pg27200:207:26
# text = And he spent seven years in the construction of wonderful ships to sail through the air, and had darts cast from the hardest steel to break the walls of heaven with.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	spent	spend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	construction	construction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	sail	sail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
14	through	through	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	darts	dart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	cast	cast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	hardest	hard	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	25	amod	_	_
25	steel	steel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spend** | past | prince |  |  | the construction of wonderful ships | year |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sail** | to-infinitive | prince *not said here* |  |  | the air |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through air=Trajectory |
| 3 | **have** | past | prince *not said here* | darts |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **cast** | participle |  | darts *not said here* |  | the hardest steel |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent from steel=Material |
| 5 | **break** | to-infinitive | darts *not said here* | the walls of heaven |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wall=Patient |
| 6 | **construct** |  |  | wonderful ships |  |  |  |  | nom construction «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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