--- title: No one saw it but the skimming sea-gulls and the fishes beneath the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: No one saw it but the skimming sea-gulls and the fishes beneath the water; and even they did not see it properly, for they darted back with terror as the boat filled with water and sank. Who acts: one, fishes. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, wi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/5/39/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [Anne Lisbeth](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/5/) / 39 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 39 No one saw it but the skimming sea-gulls and the fishes beneath the water; and even they did not see it properly, for they darted back with terror as the boat filled with water and sank. **Who acts:** one, fishes · **What happens:** see, skim, not see, dart back, fill, sink · **To what, where:** beam, boat This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, fishes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:5:39 # text = No one saw it but the skimming sea-gulls and the fishes beneath the water; and even they did not see it properly, for they darted back with terror as the boat filled with water and sank. 1 No no DET DT PronType=Neg 2 det _ _ 2 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 but but CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 7 skimming skim VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 amod _ _ 8 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 gulls gull NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 fishes fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 14 beneath beneath ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 19 even even ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 21 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 properly properly ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 for for SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 darted dart VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 30 back back ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 terror terror NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 as as ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 36 filled fill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 acl _ _ 37 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 sank sink VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past | no one | beam | | | | beneath the water | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 2 | **skim** | gerund | | | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **see** | past · do-support | fishes *= fish* | beam | | | | properly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 4 | **dart back** | past | fishes *= fish* | | | | | with terror; as the boat | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **fill** | participle | | the boat *not said here* | | | | with water | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with water=Instrument | | 6 | **sink** | past | fishes *= fish* *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/5/38/) - next →: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/5/40/) - ↑ back to [Anne Lisbeth](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/5/)