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title: He told us he was going in a ship to Corfu and Patras, and could rel… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He told us he was going in a ship to Corfu and Patras, and could relate a great many stories, not only about the fishermen who lived near the gulf of Lepanto, but also of kings and heroes who had once possessed Greece, just as the Turks possess it now. Who acts: Aphtanides, fishermen, Turks. A sente
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 93

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He told us he was going in a ship to Corfu and Patras, and could relate a great many stories, not only about the fishermen who lived near the gulf of Lepanto, but also of kings and heroes who had once possessed Greece, just as the Turks possess it now.

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**Who acts:** Aphtanides, fishermen, Turks · **What happens:** tell, go, relate, live, possess · **To what, where:** us, ship, great many stories, gulf, kings · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Aphtanides, fishermen, Turks), 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:pg27200:36:93
# text = He told us he was going in a ship to Corfu and Patras, and could relate a great many stories, not only about the fishermen who lived near the gulf of Lepanto, but also of kings and heroes who had once possessed Greece, just as the Turks possess it now.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	ccomp	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Corfu	Corfu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Patras	Patras	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	relate	relate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
24	only	only	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
25	about	about	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	fishermen	fisherman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
28	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	near	near	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	gulf	gulf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Lepanto	Lepanto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
36	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
37	also	also	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nsubj:pass	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	conj	_	_
42	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	45	nsubj:pass	_	_
43	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
44	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	45	advmod	_	_
45	possessed	possess	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
46	Greece	Greece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
48	just	just	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
49	as	as	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	Turks	Turk	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	52	nsubj	_	_
52	possess	possess	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
53	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obj	_	_
54	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	52	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Aphtanides |  | us |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** | past · progressive | Aphtanides |  |  | a ship to Corfu and Patras |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in ship=Location |
| 3 | **relate** | could | Aphtanides *not said here* | a great many stories and the fishermen |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme |
| 4 | **live** | past | the fishermen |  |  | the gulf of Lepanto |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near gulf=Location |
| 5 | **possess** | past · perfect · passive |  | kings and heroes |  |  |  | once *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **possess** | present | the Turks | ship |  |  | now |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |

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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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