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title: The salt waves sprinkled their white foam over it, but it stood firm… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The salt waves sprinkled their white foam over it, but it stood firm, and remained long after he who had given the bricks to build it was dead and buried. Who acts: salt waves, roof. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop, with its dependency tree and 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 127

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The salt waves sprinkled their white foam over it, but it stood firm, and remained long after he who had given the bricks to build it was dead and buried.

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**Who acts:** salt waves, roof · **What happens:** sprinkle, stand, remain, give, build, be · **To what, where:** white foam, roof, sea

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (salt waves, roof), 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:pg27200:177:127
# text = The salt waves sprinkled their white foam over it, but it stood firm, and remained long after he who had given the bricks to build it was dead and buried.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	foam	foam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	over	over	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	firm	firm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
18	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
19	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	bricks	brick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	ccomp	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sprinkle** | past | the salt waves | waves's white foam |  | roof |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent foam=Theme over it=Destination |
| 2 | **stand** | past | roof |  |  |  |  | firm *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **remain** | past | roof *not said here* |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | past · perfect · passive |  | sea |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient brick=Theme |
| 5 | **build** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 6 | **is** | past | roof |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **bury** | participle | roof *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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