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description: It remained on the shore covered with boards,--a Noah's ark that never got to the water--Whir-r-r-r--and that was a pity. Who acts: hint, Whir r, that. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 64

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It remained on the shore covered with boards,--a Noah's ark that never got to the water--Whir-r-r-r--and that was a pity.

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**Who acts:** hint, Whir r, that · **What happens:** remain, cover, not get, r, be · **To what, where:** shore, ark, pity

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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 (hint, Whir r, that), 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:pg27200:212:64
# text = It remained on the shore covered with boards,--a Noah's ark that never got to the water--Whir-r-r-r--and that was a pity.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	boards	board	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Noah	Noah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	ark	ark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obl	_	_
16	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Whir	whir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	r	r	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	r	r	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	r	r	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | past | hint |  |  | the shore |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shore=Location |
| 2 | **cover** | participle |  | the shore *not said here* |  |  |  | with boards | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with board=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **get** | past |  | a Noah's ark |  |  |  | to the water *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to water=Result |
| 4 | **r** |  | Whir r |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | past | that | a pity |  |  |  |  | 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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