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title: Water here and water there; waving tussocks and trembling mools, and… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Water here and water there; waving tussocks and trembling mools, and great black snags all twisted and bent. Who acts: great black. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 59

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Water here and water there; waving tussocks and trembling mools, and great black snags all twisted and bent.

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**Who acts:** great black · **What happens:** wave, tremble, snag · **To what, where:** tussocks, mools

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great black), 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:pg14241:24:59
# text = Water here and water there; waving tussocks and trembling mools, and great black snags all twisted and bent.
1	Water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
2	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	waving	wave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
8	tussocks	tussock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	trembling	tremble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
11	mools	mool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	nsubj	_	_
16	snags	snag	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	all	all	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	twisted	twisted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	bent	bent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wave** | gerund |  | tussocks |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tussock=Patient |
| 2 | **tremble** | gerund |  | mools |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mool=Theme |
| 3 | **snag** | present | great black |  |  |  |  | twisted *property* | tree rules |

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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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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