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title: Good gracious, what large waves arose in that gutter! and how fast t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Good gracious, what large waves arose in that gutter! and how fast the stream rolled on! for the rain had been very heavy. Who acts: large waves, stream. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 37

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Good gracious, what large waves arose in that gutter! and how fast the stream rolled on! for the rain had been very heavy.

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**Who acts:** large waves, stream · **What happens:** arise, roll on, be · **To what, where:** gutter, stream

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (large waves, stream), 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:pg27200:192:37
# text = Good gracious, what large waves arose in that gutter! and how fast the stream rolled on! for the rain had been very heavy.
1	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	gracious	gracious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	conj	_	_
5	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	gutter	gutter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
13	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
14	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
17	rolled	roll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
24	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	cop	_	_
25	very	very	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arise** | past | large waves |  |  | that gutter |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in gutter=Location |
| 2 | **roll on** | participle |  | the stream *not said here* |  |  |  | for the rain | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past · perfect | the stream |  |  |  |  | fast, heavy *property* | tree rules |

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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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