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title: He rested on the waves, he trod the water--in fact, did everything h… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He rested on the waves, he trod the water--in fact, did everything he could think of, in order not to fatigue himself, and to reserve strength enough to reach land. Who acts: Jurgen. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, with i
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 50

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He rested on the waves, he trod the water--in fact, did everything he could think of, in order not to fatigue himself, and to reserve strength enough to reach land.

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**Who acts:** Jurgen · **What happens:** rest, tread, do, think, not fatigue, reserve · **To what, where:** waves, water, everything, fact, Jurgen, strength

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jurgen), 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:pg27200:162:50
# text = He rested on the waves, he trod the water--in fact, did everything he could think of, in order not to fatigue himself, and to reserve strength enough to reach land.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rested	rest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	trod	tread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	15	obj	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	fatigue	fatigue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	reserve	reserve	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
32	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
33	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	advcl	_	_
36	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	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 | **rest** | past | Jurgen |  |  | the waves |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent on wave=Location |
| 2 | **tread** | past | Jurgen | the water |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location water=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | past | Jurgen *not said here* | everything |  | fact |  | in order | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | could | Jurgen |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **fatigue** | to-infinitive | Jurgen *not said here* | Jurgen |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer |
| 6 | **reserve** | to-infinitive |  | strength |  |  |  | enough *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Theme |
| 7 | **reach** | to-infinitive |  | land |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent land=Theme |

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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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