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title: Then I sprinkled snow over them, and left them in their crushed boat… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then I sprinkled snow over them, and left them in their crushed boats to drift southward, and to taste salt water. Who acts: I. 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 55

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Then I sprinkled snow over them, and left them in their crushed boats to drift southward, and to taste salt water.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** sprinkle, leave, crush, drift, taste · **To what, where:** snow, sailors, crushed boats, salt 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 (I), 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:pg27200:140:55
# text = Then I sprinkled snow over them, and left them in their crushed boats to drift southward, and to taste salt water.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	crushed	crush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	boats	boat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	drift	drift	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
17	southward	southward	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	taste	taste	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sprinkle** | past | I | snow |  |  | then | over sailors *= sailor* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent snow=Theme over they=Destination |
| 2 | **leave** | past | I *not said here* | sailors *= sailor* |  | sailors's crushed boats |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in boat=Location |
| 3 | **crush** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **drift** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | southward *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **taste** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | salt water |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme water=Attribute |

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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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