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title: Though the water was clear, the sun never looked down far enough int… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Though the water was clear, the sun never looked down far enough into the well to mirror itself in the waters; but as far as its beams could reach, green things grew forth between the stones in the sides of the well. Who acts: water, clear sun, beams, green things. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 2

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Though the water was clear, the sun never looked down far enough into the well to mirror itself in the waters; but as far as its beams could reach, green things grew forth between the stones in the sides of the well.

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**Who acts:** water, clear sun, beams, green things · **What happens:** be, not look down, reach, grow, beam · **To what, where:** stones

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, clear sun, beams, green things), 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:pg27200:194:2
# text = Though the water was clear, the sun never looked down far enough into the well to mirror itself in the waters; but as far as its beams could reach, green things grew forth between the stones in the sides of the well.
1	Though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	down	down	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
13	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	mirror	mirror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
19	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	18	nmod:unmarked	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
25	as	as	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	35	advmod	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
28	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	beams	beam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
30	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
35	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
36	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
37	between	between	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the water |  |  |  |  | clear *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **look down** | past | the clear sun |  |  |  |  | into the well; down, far *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into well=Theme |
| 3 | **reach** | could | water's beams |  |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **grow** | past | green things |  |  | the stones in the sides of the well |  | far, forth *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between stone=Location |
| 5 | **beam** |  | water |  |  |  |  |  | nom beam «communication transitive»: poss=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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