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title: I was in a ship that was wrecked, and the waves cast me ashore near… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I was in a ship that was wrecked, and the waves cast me ashore near a holy temple, where several young maidens performed the service. Who acts: I, waves, several young maidens. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, with its dependency t
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 65

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I was in a ship that was wrecked, and the waves cast me ashore near a holy temple, where several young maidens performed the service.

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**Who acts:** I, waves, several young maidens · **What happens:** be, wreck, cast, perform · **To what, where:** ship, me, holy temple, service

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, waves, several young maidens), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:5604`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:77:65
# text = I was in a ship that was wrecked, and the waves cast me ashore near a holy temple, where several young maidens performed the service.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	wrecked	wreck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	cast	cast	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	ashore	ashore	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	near	near	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	25	advmod	_	_
22	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	performed	perform	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | I |  |  | a ship |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wreck** | past · passive |  | a ship |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **cast** | past | the waves | me |  | a holy temple |  | ashore *property* | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent i=Theme near temple=Destination |
| 4 | **perform** | past | several young maidens | the service |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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