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title: She had seated herself upon one of the largest, and let the wind pla… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She had seated herself upon one of the largest, and let the wind play with her long hair, and she remarked that all the ships sailed by rapidly, and steered as far away as they could from the iceberg, as if they were afraid of it. Who acts: turn, ships, icebergs. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans C
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 57

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She had seated herself upon one of the largest, and let the wind play with her long hair, and she remarked that all the ships sailed by rapidly, and steered as far away as they could from the iceberg, as if they were afraid of it.

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**Who acts:** turn, ships, icebergs · **What happens:** seat, let, remark, sail, steer, be · **To what, where:** turn, wind play

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (turn, ships, icebergs), 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:pg27200:75:57
# text = She had seated herself upon one of the largest, and let the wind play with her long hair, and she remarked that all the ships sailed by rapidly, and steered as far away as they could from the iceberg, as if they were afraid of it.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	seated	seat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	remarked	remark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	27	det:predet	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	RB	_	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	steered	steer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
34	as	as	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	36	advmod	_	_
36	away	away	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
37	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
38	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	advcl	_	_
40	from	from	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	iceberg	iceberg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
44	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
45	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
46	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
47	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
48	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	advcl	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seat** | past · perfect | turn | turn |  |  |  | upon one of the largest | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location herself=Value |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive |  | the wind play |  |  |  | with turn's long hair | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent play=Theme |
| 3 | **remark** *speech: assert* | past | turn |  |  |  |  |  | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **sail** | past | all ships |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **steer** | past | all ships *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | past | icebergs *= iceberg* |  |  |  |  | of hair; afraid *property* | tree rules |

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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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