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title: The next morning the ship sailed into the harbor of a beautiful town… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The next morning the ship sailed into the harbor of a beautiful town belonging to the king whom the prince was going to visit. Who acts: ship, beautiful town, prince. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, with its dependency tree and th
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 90

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The next morning the ship sailed into the harbor of a beautiful town belonging to the king whom the prince was going to visit.

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**Who acts:** ship, beautiful town, prince · **What happens:** sail, belong, go, visit · **To what, where:** harbor, king

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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 (ship, beautiful town, prince), 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:pg27200:77:90
# text = The next morning the ship sailed into the harbor of a beautiful town belonging to the king whom the prince was going to visit.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	harbor	harbor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	belonging	belong	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	obj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	acl:relcl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sail** | past | the ship |  |  | the harbor of a beautiful town | morning |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into harbor=Trajectory |
| 2 | **belong** | gerund | a beautiful town *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the king | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | past · progressive | the prince | the king |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **visit** | to-infinitive | the prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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