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title: When they flew over seas and lakes, the waves rose higher, and the l… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: When they flew over seas and lakes, the waves rose higher, and the large ships dipped into the water like diving swans. Who acts: branches, waves, large ships. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 138

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When they flew over seas and lakes, the waves rose higher, and the large ships dipped into the water like diving swans.

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**Who acts:** branches, waves, large ships · **What happens:** fly, rise, dip · **To what, where:** seas, water

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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 (branches, waves, large ships), 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:pg27200:140:138
# text = When they flew over seas and lakes, the waves rose higher, and the large ships dipped into the water like diving swans.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
4	over	over	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	seas	sea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	dipped	dip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	like	like	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	diving	diving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	swans	swan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | branches *= branch* | seas and lakes |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **rise** | past | the waves |  |  |  |  | high *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **dip** | past | the large ships |  |  | the water |  | like diving swans | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into water=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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