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title: As the swing goes on, the bubbles fly upward, reflecting the most be… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: As the swing goes on, the bubbles fly upward, reflecting the most beautiful varying colors. Who acts: swing, bubbles. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 88

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As the swing goes on, the bubbles fly upward, reflecting the most beautiful varying colors.

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**Who acts:** swing, bubbles · **What happens:** go on, fly, reflect, vary · **To what, where:** beautiful varying colors

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (swing, bubbles), 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:pg27200:172:88
# text = As the swing goes on, the bubbles fly upward, reflecting the most beautiful varying colors.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	swing	swing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	on	on	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bubbles	bubble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	fly	fly	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	upward	upward	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	reflecting	reflect	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	15	advmod	_	_
15	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	varying	vary	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	amod	_	_
17	colors	color	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go on** | present | the swing |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fly** | present | the bubbles |  |  |  |  | upward *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **reflect** | gerund | the bubbles *not said here* | the beautiful varying colors |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **vary** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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