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title: Brilliant fish, with scales like silver and gold, swam after the boa… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Brilliant fish, with scales like silver and gold, swam after the boat, sometimes making a spring and splashing the water round them, while birds, red and blue, small and great, flew after him in two long lines. Who acts: Brilliant fish. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 39

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Brilliant fish, with scales like silver and gold, swam after the boat, sometimes making a spring and splashing the water round them, while birds, red and blue, small and great, flew after him in two long lines.

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**Who acts:** Brilliant fish · **What happens:** swim, make, splash, fly · **To what, where:** water, two long lines

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brilliant fish), 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:pg27200:134:39
# text = Brilliant fish, with scales like silver and gold, swam after the boat, sometimes making a spring and splashing the water round them, while birds, red and blue, small and great, flew after him in two long lines.
1	Brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	scales	scale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	swam	swim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	17	advmod	_	_
17	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	splashing	splash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	round	round	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
39	after	after	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obl	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	44	nummod	_	_
43	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swim** | past | Brilliant fish and scales like silver and gold |  |  |  | after the boat | while birds | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | gerund | Brilliant fish and scales like silver and gold *not said here* |  |  |  | spring | sometimes *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **splash** | gerund | Brilliant fish and scales like silver and gold *not said here* | the water |  |  |  | round fish | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location water=Theme |
| 4 | **fly** | past | Brilliant fish and scales like silver and gold *not said here* |  |  | two long lines | after Oie |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in line=Location |

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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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