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title: The ships sailed by and saluted the castle with the boom of the cann… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The ships sailed by and saluted the castle with the boom of the cannon, and Kronenburg returned the salute, "Boom, boom." Who acts: ships, Kronenburg. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Holger Danske, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Holger Danske, sentence 54

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The ships sailed by and saluted the castle with the boom of the cannon, and Kronenburg returned the salute, "Boom, boom."

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**Who acts:** ships, Kronenburg · **What happens:** sail, salute, return, boom · **To what, where:** castle, salute, cannon

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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 (ships, Kronenburg), 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:pg27200:50:54
# text = The ships sailed by and saluted the castle with the boom of the cannon, and Kronenburg returned the salute, "Boom, boom."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	3	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	saluted	salute	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	boom	boom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	cannon	cannon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	Kronenburg	Kronenburg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	salute	salute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Boom	boom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	boom	boom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sail** | past | the ships |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **salute** | past | the ships *not said here* | the castle |  |  |  | with the boom of the cannon | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Topic |
| 3 | **return** | past | Kronenburg | the salute |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salute=Theme |
| 4 | **boom** |  |  | the cannon |  |  |  |  | nom boom «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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