--- title: There it lay stretched on the snow-covered shore, and over it sounde… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: There it lay stretched on the snow-covered shore, and over it sounded the notes of a song from the ship--a song of Christmas joy, and of the redemption of the soul of man, and of eternal life through Christ's atoning blood. Who acts: oration, Christmas joy. 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C. Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (oration, Christmas joy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:69:104 # text = There it lay stretched on the snow-covered shore, and over it sounded the notes of a song from the ship--a song of Christmas joy, and of the redemption of the soul of man, and of eternal life through Christ's atoning blood. 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 3 expl _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 lay lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 stretched stretch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 xcomp _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 7 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 amod _ _ 10 shore shore NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 over over SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 sounded sound VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 notes note NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 from from ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 -- -- PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 Christmas Christmas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 joy joy NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 redemption redemption NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 soul soul NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 eternal eternal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 45 through through SCONJ IN _ 48 mark _ _ 46 Christ Christ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 47 's 's PART POS _ 46 case _ _ 48 atoning atone VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 44 advcl _ _ 49 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie** | past | oration | | | there | | of the redemption of the soul of man | tree rules | | 2 | **stretch** | participle | oration *not said here* | | | the covered shore | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **cover** | participle | | | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **sound** | past | oration | the notes of a song from the ship and a song of Christmas joy | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location note=Theme | | 5 | **atone** | gerund | oration *not said here* | blood | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **note** | | | a song from the ship | | | | | nom note «communication transitive»: of=patient | | 7 | **sing** | | Christmas joy | | | | | | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent | | 8 | **redeem** | | | the soul of man | | | | | nom redemption «act transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/69/103/) - next →: [sentence 105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/69/105/) - ↑ back to [The Last Dream of the Old Oak](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/69/)