--- title: They could fly over the sea in ships, and mount the high hills which… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: They could fly over the sea in ships, and mount the high hills which were far above the clouds; and the lands they possessed, their woods and their fields, stretched far away beyond the reach of her sight. Who acts: beings, high hills, water. 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C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beings, high hills, water), 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:pg27200:76:49 # text = They could fly over the sea in ships, and mount the high hills which were far above the clouds; and the lands they possessed, their woods and their fields, stretched far away beyond the reach of her sight. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 over over ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 mount mount VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 hills hill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 15 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 16 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 17 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 20 advmod _ _ 18 above above ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 clouds cloud NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 lands land NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 possessed possess VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 woods wood NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 fields field NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 stretched stretch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 conj _ _ 35 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 36 advmod _ _ 36 away away ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 37 beyond beyond ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 reach reach NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fly** | could | beings *= being* | the lands and beings's woods and beings's fields | | the sea | | in ships | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over sea=Location | | 2 | **mount** | infinitive | beings *= being* *not said here* | the high hills | | | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hill=Patient | | 3 | **is** | past | the high hills | | | the clouds | | far *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **possess** | past | beings *= being* | the lands and beings's woods and beings's fields *not said here* | | | | | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot land=Theme | | 5 | **stretch** | participle | beings *= being* *not said here* | | | | | beyond the reach of water's sight; away *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **sight** | | water | | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/76/48/) - next →: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/76/50/) - ↑ back to [The Little Mermaid, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/76/)