---
title: The boat was moored; and the two men, after desiring the children to… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The boat was moored; and the two men, after desiring the children to sit still, both went on shore. Who acts: two men. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/51/29/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [Ib and Little Christina](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/51/) / 29

# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 29

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The boat was moored; and the two men, after desiring the children to sit still, both went on shore.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** two men · **What happens:** moor, desire, sit, go · **To what, where:** boat, children, shore

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two men), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg27200:51:29
# text = The boat was moored; and the two men, after desiring the children to sit still, both went on shore.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	moored	moor	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	desiring	desire	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
17	still	still	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	advmod	_	_
20	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **moor** | past · passive |  | the boat |  |  |  | the two men *obl* | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V ADVP»: subject=Destination |
| 2 | **desire** | gerund | the two men *not said here* | the children |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot child=Theme |
| 3 | **sit** | to-infinitive | the two men *not said here* |  |  |  | still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **go** | past |  |  |  | shore |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on shore=Location |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/51/28/)
- next →: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/51/30/)
- ↑ back to [Ib and Little Christina](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/51/)