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title: I met several new ships when I flew from Egypt, and they had fine ma… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I met several new ships when I flew from Egypt, and they had fine masts that smelt like fir. Who acts: I, swallows, fine masts. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 20

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I met several new ships when I flew from Egypt, and they had fine masts that smelt like fir.

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**Who acts:** I, swallows, fine masts · **What happens:** meet, fly, have, smelt · **To what, where:** several new ships, Egypt, fine masts

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, swallows, fine masts), 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:pg27200:33:20
# text = I met several new ships when I flew from Egypt, and they had fine masts that smelt like fir.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	masts	mast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	smelt	smelt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	like	like	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	fir	fir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past | I | several new ships |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **fly** | past | I |  |  | Egypt |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from egypt=Trajectory |
| 3 | **have** | past | swallows *= swallow* | fine masts |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mast=Patient |
| 4 | **smelt** | present | fine masts |  |  |  |  | like fir | 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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