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title: On the same evening the bride and bridegroom went on board ship; can… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: On the same evening the bride and bridegroom went on board ship; cannons were roaring, flags waving, and in the centre of the ship a costly tent of purple and gold had been erected. Who acts: bride, cannons, flags. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, sentence 10

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On the same evening the bride and bridegroom went on board ship; cannons were roaring, flags waving, and in the centre of the ship a costly tent of purple and gold had been erected.

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**Who acts:** bride, cannons, flags · **What happens:** go, roar, wave, erect · **To what, where:** ship, costly tent, centre

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bride, cannons, flags), 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:pg27200:5642`): 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:pg27200:78:10
# text = On the same evening the bride and bridegroom went on board ship; cannons were roaring, flags waving, and in the centre of the ship a costly tent of purple and gold had been erected.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	board	board	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	cannons	cannon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	roaring	roar	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	parataxis	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	flags	flag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	waving	wave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	costly	costly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	purple	purple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
35	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	erected	erect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the bride and bridegroom |  |  | ship | evening |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on ship=Location |
| 2 | **roar** | past · progressive | cannons |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **wave** | gerund | flags |  |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **erect** | past · perfect · passive |  | a costly tent of purple and gold |  | the centre of the ship |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product |

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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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