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title: From out the hill-side spouted fountains in thick streams of water,… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: From out the hill-side spouted fountains in thick streams of water, so that there was a continual splashing; and close beside them sat an old king with a golden crown upon his white head: that was King Hroar, near the fountains, close to the town of Roeskilde, as it is now called. Who acts: Tuk, tha
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 47

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From out the hill-side spouted fountains in thick streams of water, so that there was a continual splashing; and close beside them sat an old king with a golden crown upon his white head: that was King Hroar, near the fountains, close to the town of Roeskilde, as it is now called.

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**Who acts:** Tuk, that · **What happens:** spout, be, close, sit, call · **To what, where:** continual splashing, old king, King Hroar, confusion · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tuk, that), 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:pg1597:25:47
# text = From out the hill-side spouted fountains in thick streams of water, so that there was a continual splashing; and close beside them sat an old king with a golden crown upon his white head: that was King Hroar, near the fountains, close to the town of Roeskilde, as it is now called.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	out	out	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
7	spouted	spout	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	fountains	fountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	streams	stream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	continual	continual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	splashing	splashing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	close	close	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
25	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
28	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
35	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
37	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
40	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	43	nsubj	_	_
41	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
42	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	Hroar	Hroar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	near	near	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	fountains	fountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
49	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
50	to	to	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	Roeskilde	Roeskilde	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
56	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	60	mark	_	_
57	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	nsubj:pass	_	_
58	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	60	aux:pass	_	_
59	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	60	advmod	_	_
60	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spout** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | a continual splashing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **close** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **sit** | past | Tuk | a old king |  |  |  | with a golden crown upon king's white head | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location king=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | past | that | King Hroar |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **call** | present · passive |  | confusion |  |  | now |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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