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title: On land, the boats were all carefully drawn up on the beach, every l… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: On land, the boats were all carefully drawn up on the beach, every living thing sought shelter, and at length the rain poured down in torrents. Who acts: living thing. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 59

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On land, the boats were all carefully drawn up on the beach, every living thing sought shelter, and at length the rain poured down in torrents.

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**Who acts:** living thing · **What happens:** draw up, seek, pour down · **To what, where:** boats, land, shelter, rain, torrents

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. the Conclusion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (living thing), 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:pg27200:66:59
# text = On land, the boats were all carefully drawn up on the beach, every living thing sought shelter, and at length the rain poured down in torrents.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	boats	boat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
7	all	all	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
16	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
18	sought	seek	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	shelter	shelter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
26	poured	pour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
27	down	down	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	torrents	torrent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw up** | past · passive |  | the boats |  | land |  | on the beach and every living thing; at length; all, carefully *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on land=Destination |
| 2 | **seek** | participle | every living thing *not said here* | shelter |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shelter=Theme |
| 3 | **pour down** | participle |  | the rain *not said here* |  | torrents |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |

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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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