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title: Out in the river lay the ships, icebound, and forsaken by their crew… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Out in the river lay the ships, icebound, and forsaken by their crews; a screaming crow represented the only living creature on board. Who acts: screaming crow. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 41

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Out in the river lay the ships, icebound, and forsaken by their crews; a screaming crow represented the only living creature on board.

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**Who acts:** screaming crow · **What happens:** lie, forsake, scream, represent · **To what, where:** ships, river, only living creature, board

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (screaming crow), 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:pg27200:44:41
# text = Out in the river lay the ships, icebound, and forsaken by their crews; a screaming crow represented the only living creature on board.
1	Out	out	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	icebound	icebound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	forsaken	forsake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	crews	crew	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	screaming	scream	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	amod	_	_
19	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	represented	represent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	living	living	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past |  | the ships and icebound |  | the river |  | out *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ship=Theme |
| 2 | **forsake** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by ships's crews | tree rules |
| 3 | **scream** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **represent** | past | a screaming crow | the only living creature |  | board |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot creature=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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