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title: He betook himself thither, strode through the open courtyard where t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He betook himself thither, strode through the open courtyard where the waters ran splashing from the dolphin's jaws into the marble basins, where the snowy lilies and the fresh roses bloomed in abundance. Who acts: Providence, waters, snowy lilies. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Anders
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 74

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He betook himself thither, strode through the open courtyard where the waters ran splashing from the dolphin's jaws into the marble basins, where the snowy lilies and the fresh roses bloomed in abundance.

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**Who acts:** Providence, waters, snowy lilies · **What happens:** betake, stride, run, splash, bloom · **To what, where:** Providence, open courtyard, jaws, abundance

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Providence, waters, snowy lilies), 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:pg27200:151:74
# text = He betook himself thither, strode through the open courtyard where the waters ran splashing from the dolphin's jaws into the marble basins, where the snowy lilies and the fresh roses bloomed in abundance.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	betook	betake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obj	_	_
4	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	strode	stride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	through	through	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	splashing	splash	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	xcomp	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	dolphin	dolphin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	jaws	jaw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	marble	marble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	basins	basin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
26	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	34	advmod	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	snowy	snowy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	lilies	lily	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
34	bloomed	bloom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	abundance	abundance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **betake** | past | Providence | Providence |  |  |  | thither *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **stride** | past | Providence *not said here* |  |  | the open courtyard |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through courtyard=Trajectory |
| 3 | **run** | past | the waters |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **splash** | gerund | the waters *not said here* |  |  | the dolphin's jaws |  | into the marble basins | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into basin=Destination |
| 5 | **bloom** | participle | the snowy lilies and the fresh roses |  |  | abundance |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in abundance=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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