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title: He saw the captive giant at St. Helena, looking from the lonely rock… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He saw the captive giant at St. Helena, looking from the lonely rock across the wide ocean, while great thoughts swept through his soul. Who acts: Moon, great thoughts. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eighth Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eighth Evening, sentence 8

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He saw the captive giant at St. Helena, looking from the lonely rock across the wide ocean, while great thoughts swept through his soul.

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**Who acts:** Moon, great thoughts · **What happens:** see, look, sweep · **To what, where:** captive giant, Helena, soul

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eighth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moon, great thoughts), 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:pg27200:99:8
# text = He saw the captive giant at St. Helena, looking from the lonely rock across the wide ocean, while great thoughts swept through his soul.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	captive	captive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:desc	_	_
8	Helena	Helena	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	across	across	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	swept	sweep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
24	through	through	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Moon | the captive giant |  | Helena  St. |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer giant=Stimulus |
| 2 | **look** | gerund | Moon *not said here* |  |  |  |  | across the wide ocean; from the lonely rock | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from rock=Theme |
| 3 | **sweep** | past | great thoughts |  |  | Moon's soul |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through soul=Trajectory |

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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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