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title: Then the little ship sailed away; sometimes the current of the water… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the little ship sailed away; sometimes the current of the water seized it, but whenever it went too far from the shore one of the boys turned up his trousers, and went in after it, and brought it back to land. Who acts: little ship, current, boys. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian An
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 123

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Then the little ship sailed away; sometimes the current of the water seized it, but whenever it went too far from the shore one of the boys turned up his trousers, and went in after it, and brought it back to land.

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**Who acts:** little ship, current, boys · **What happens:** sail away, seize, go, turn up, go in, bring back · **To what, where:** ship, one, shore, trousers, land

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little ship, current, boys), 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:pg27200:8:123
# text = Then the little ship sailed away; sometimes the current of the water seized it, but whenever it went too far from the shore one of the boys turned up his trousers, and went in after it, and brought it back to land.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
8	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	14	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	current	current	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	whenever	whenever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	20	advmod	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
21	too	too	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	obl	_	_
27	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
30	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
31	up	up	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	trousers	trousers	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
37	in	in	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	after	after	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
43	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obj	_	_
44	back	back	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
45	to	to	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sail away** | past | the little ship |  |  |  | then | away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **seize** | past | the current of the water | ship |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | past | current | one |  | the shore |  | far, whenever *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from shore=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **turn up** | past | the boys | beetle's trousers |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location trousers=Theme |
| 5 | **go in** | past | the little ship *not said here* |  |  |  | after current |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **bring back** | past | the little ship *not said here* | ship |  | land |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to land=Destination |

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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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