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title: They were rocking themselves two together on the large dew-drops wit… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They were rocking themselves two together on the large dew-drops with which the leaves and the high grass were sprinkled. Who acts: elves. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 73

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They were rocking themselves two together on the large dew-drops with which the leaves and the high grass were sprinkled.

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**Who acts:** elves · **What happens:** rock, sprinkle · **To what, where:** elves, large dew drops, leaves

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elves), 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:pg27200:196:73
# text = They were rocking themselves two together on the large dew-drops with which the leaves and the high grass were sprinkled.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	rocking	rock	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obj	_	_
6	together	together	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	dew	dew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rock** | past · progressive | elves *= elf* | elves *= elf* |  | the large dew drops |  | together *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sprinkle** | past · passive |  | the leaves and the high grass |  |  |  | with the large dew drops | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with which=Theme |

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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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