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title: The English pirates had taken some ships in the Channel in 1801, and… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The English pirates had taken some ships in the Channel in 1801, and the counsellor, supposing they referred to these, agreed with them in finding fault with the English. Who acts: pirates. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, wit
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 98

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The English pirates had taken some ships in the Channel in 1801, and the counsellor, supposing they referred to these, agreed with them in finding fault with the English.

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**Who acts:** pirates · **What happens:** take, suppose, refer, agree, find · **To what, where:** English pirates, 1801, fault · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pirates), 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:pg27200:41:98
# text = The English pirates had taken some ships in the Channel in 1801, and the counsellor, supposing they referred to these, agreed with them in finding fault with the English.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	pirates	pirate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Channel	Channel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	1801	1801	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	counsellor	counsellor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	supposing	suppose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	referred	refer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	agreed	agree	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
27	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
28	finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
29	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past · perfect · passive |  | the English pirates |  | 1801 |  | the counsellor *obl* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme ship=Destination |
| 2 | **suppose** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **refer** | past | pirates *= pirate* |  |  |  |  | to these | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to this=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **agree** *speech: agree* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with pirates *= pirate* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with they=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **find** | gerund |  | fault |  |  |  | with the English | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fault=Topic |

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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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