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title: They passed the coast which has been so celebrated in song. — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They passed the coast which has been so celebrated in song. Who acts: godmother. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, X. the Godmother, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, X. the Godmother, sentence 7

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They passed the coast which has been so celebrated in song.

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**Who acts:** godmother · **What happens:** pass, celebrate · **To what, where:** coast, song

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, X. the Godmother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (godmother), 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:pg27200:61:7
# text = They passed the coast which has been so celebrated in song.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | godmother | the coast |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme coast=Trajectory |
| 2 | **celebrate** | present · perfect · passive |  | the coast |  | song |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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