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title: Then the lake lifted her up, and wafted her across to the opposite s… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the lake lifted her up, and wafted her across to the opposite shore as if she were on a swing, where stood a wonderful building many miles in length. Who acts: lake, mother. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother, with its dependency tree
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 38

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Then the lake lifted her up, and wafted her across to the opposite shore as if she were on a swing, where stood a wonderful building many miles in length.

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**Who acts:** lake, mother · **What happens:** lift up, waft, be, stand · **To what, where:** mother, swing, wonderful building, length

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lake, mother), 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:pg27200:185:38
# text = Then the lake lifted her up, and wafted her across to the opposite shore as if she were on a swing, where stood a wonderful building many miles in length.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	wafted	waft	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	across	across	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
17	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	swing	swing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	25	advmod	_	_
25	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	parataxis	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	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 | **lift up** | past | the lake | mother |  |  | then |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 2 | **waft** | past | the lake *not said here* | mother |  |  |  | to the opposite shore; across *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location she=Theme |
| 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | mother |  |  | a swing |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **stand** | past |  | a wonderful building |  | length |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent building=Theme mile=Destination |

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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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