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title: Within, down it sunk perpendicularly into a caldron, about a Danish… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Within, down it sunk perpendicularly into a caldron, about a Danish mile in depth; while below lay a town, whose appearance we can, in some measure, realize to ourselves by beating the white of an egg in a glass of water. Who acts: moon. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The 
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 101

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Within, down it sunk perpendicularly into a caldron, about a Danish mile in depth; while below lay a town, whose appearance we can, in some measure, realize to ourselves by beating the white of an egg in a glass of water.

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**Who acts:** moon · **What happens:** sink, lie, realize, beat · **To what, where:** caldron, town, measure, ourselves, white

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, 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 (moon), 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:pg1597:6:101
# text = Within, down it sunk perpendicularly into a caldron, about a Danish mile in depth; while below lay a town, whose appearance we can, in some measure, realize to ourselves by beating the white of an egg in a glass of water.
1	Within	within	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	down	down	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sunk	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	perpendicularly	perpendicularly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	caldron	caldron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	about	about	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Danish	danish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	depth	depth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	below	below	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
26	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	31	det	_	_
31	measure	measure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	realize	realize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	33	obl	_	_
36	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
37	beating	beat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	advcl	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	white	white	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sink** | past | moon |  |  | a caldron  a Danish mile in depth |  | down, perpendicularly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **lie** | past |  | a town |  | some measure |  | below *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location town=Theme |
| 3 | **realize** | infinitive |  |  | ourselves |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **beat** | gerund |  | the white of a egg |  |  |  | in a glass of water | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent white=Patient in glass=Topic |

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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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