--- title: Lonely as it was on the sea-shore, she did not observe it, for the e… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Lonely as it was on the sea-shore, she did not observe it, for the ever-moving sea showed more changes in a few hours than the most varying lake could produce during a whole year. Who acts: water, heart, moving sea, more changes. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, heart, moving sea, more changes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:208:81 # text = Lonely as it was on the sea-shore, she did not observe it, for the ever-moving sea showed more changes in a few hours than the most varying lake could produce during a whole year. 1 Lonely lonely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 2 as as SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 shore shore NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 observe observe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 parataxis _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 17 for for SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 19 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 21 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 moving move VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 amod _ _ 22 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 24 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 25 amod _ _ 25 changes change NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 30 than than ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 32 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 33 advmod _ _ 33 varying vary VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 34 amod _ _ 34 lake lake NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 35 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 produce produce VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 ccomp _ _ 37 during during ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | water | | | the sea shore | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **observe** | past · do-support | heart | water | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 3 | **move** | gerund | | | | | ever | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **show** | past | the moving sea | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **vary** | gerund | | | | | | | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **produce** | could | more changes in a few hours than the varying lake | | | | year | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/208/80/) - next →: [sentence 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/208/82/) - ↑ back to [The Wild Swans, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/208/)