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title: I was on board the Denmark, in Steene Bille's squadron; I had a man… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I was on board the Denmark, in Steene Bille's squadron; I had a man by my side whom even the cannon balls seemed to fear. Who acts: I, Denmark, cannon balls. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Holger Danske, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Holger Danske, sentence 38

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I was on board the Denmark, in Steene Bille's squadron; I had a man by my side whom even the cannon balls seemed to fear.

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**Who acts:** I, Denmark, cannon balls · **What happens:** be, have, seem, fear · **To what, where:** Denmark, man

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Holger Danske. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Denmark, cannon balls), 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:pg27200:50:38
# text = I was on board the Denmark, in Steene Bille's squadron; I had a man by my side whom even the cannon balls seemed to fear.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	board	board	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Denmark	Denmark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	Steene	Steene	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Bille	Bille	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	squadron	squadron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	obj	_	_
22	even	even	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	cannon	cannon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	balls	ball	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	fear	fear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | I |  |  | the Denmark and Steene Bille's squadron |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | the Denmark and Steene Bille's squadron | a man |  |  |  | by my side | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient |
| 3 | **seem** | past | the cannon balls | a man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fear** | to-infinitive | the cannon balls *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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