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title: He was obliged at last to climb over great blocks of stone, with wat… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He was obliged at last to climb over great blocks of stone, with water spurting from the thick moss. Who acts: water. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 10

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He was obliged at last to climb over great blocks of stone, with water spurting from the thick moss.

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**Who acts:** water · **What happens:** oblige, climb, spurt · **To what, where:** prince, last, great blocks, thick moss

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water), 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:pg27200:140:10
# text = He was obliged at last to climb over great blocks of stone, with water spurting from the thick moss.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
8	over	over	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	blocks	block	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
16	spurting	spurt	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	moss	moss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **oblige** | past · passive |  | prince |  | last |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **climb** | to-infinitive |  | great blocks of stone |  |  |  | with water | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location block=Theme |
| 3 | **spurt** | gerund | water *not said here* |  |  | the thick moss |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from moss=Source |

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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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