--- title: And they were locked up; for the admiral, who had been sent by the k… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: And they were locked up; for the admiral, who had been sent by the king to inspect the new ship, and make arrangements for its purchase, was loud in admiration of these beautiful horses. Who acts: king, admiral. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/212/60/) [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/) / [The Story of the Wind](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/212/) / 60 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 60 And they were locked up; for the admiral, who had been sent by the king to inspect the new ship, and make arrangements for its purchase, was loud in admiration of these beautiful horses. **Who acts:** king, admiral · **What happens:** lock up, send, inspect, make, be, purchase · **To what, where:** horses, admiral, new ship, arrangements, admiration, beautiful horses This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, admiral), 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:pg27200:212:60 # text = And they were locked up; for the admiral, who had been sent by the king to inspect the new ship, and make arrangements for its purchase, was loud in admiration of these beautiful horses. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 locked lock VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ; ; PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 admiral admiral NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 sent send VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl:relcl _ _ 15 by by ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 inspect inspect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 make make VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 26 arrangements arrangement NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 purchase purchase NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 32 loud loud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 conj _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 admiration admiration NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 38 det _ _ 37 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lock up** | past · passive | | horses *= horse* | | | | for the admiral | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **send** | past · perfect · passive | the king | the admiral | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 3 | **inspect** | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* | the new ship | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Theme | | 4 | **make** | infinitive | | arrangements | | | | for admiral's purchase | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent arrangement=Product for purchase=Asset | | 5 | **is** | past | | | | admiration of this beautiful horses | | loud *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **purchase** | | admiral | | | | | | nom purchase «act transitive»: poss=agent | | 7 | **admire** | | | this beautiful horses | | | | | nom admiration «feeling transitive»: of=patient | 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 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/212/59/) - next →: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/212/61/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Wind](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/212/)