--- title: They were returning home, richly laden with spoil from the Gallic co… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: They were returning home, richly laden with spoil from the Gallic coast, where the people, as did also the inhabitants of Britain, often cried in alarm, "Deliver us from the wild northmen." Who acts: men, people. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, 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 (men, people), 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:pg27200:84:12 # text = They were returning home, richly laden with spoil from the Gallic coast, where the people, as did also the inhabitants of Britain, often cried in alarm, "Deliver us from the wild northmen." 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 returning return VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 home home ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 richly richly ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 laden lade VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 spoil spoil NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 10 from from ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 Gallic gallic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 coast coast NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 9 conj _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 as as SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 20 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 21 also also ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 inhabitants inhabitant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 often often ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 cried cry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 parataxis _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 alarm alarm NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 " " PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 Deliver deliver VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 28 parataxis _ _ 34 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 from from ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 northmen northman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **return** | past · progressive | men *= man* | | | | | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **lade** | participle | men *= man* *not said here* | | | | | with spoil from the Gallic coast; richly *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **do** | past | the people *not said here* | the inhabitants of Britain | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inhabitant=Eventuality | | 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | participle | | | | alarm | | often *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **deliver** *in a quote* | infinitive | | us | | the wild northmen | | | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent we=Theme from northman=Initial\_Location | 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 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/84/11/) - next →: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/84/13/) - ↑ back to [The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/84/)