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title: She heard water rippling from a number of springs, all flowing in a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She heard water rippling from a number of springs, all flowing in a lake with golden sands. Who acts: fragrance, water, all. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 50

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She heard water rippling from a number of springs, all flowing in a lake with golden sands.

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**Who acts:** fragrance, water, all · **What happens:** hear, ripple, flow · **To what, where:** water, number, lake

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, 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 (fragrance, water, all), 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:pg27200:208:50
# text = She heard water rippling from a number of springs, all flowing in a lake with golden sands.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	rippling	ripple	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	springs	spring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	nsubj	_	_
12	flowing	flow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	sands	sand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | fragrance | water |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus |
| 2 | **ripple** | gerund | water *not said here* |  |  | a number of springs |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **flow** | gerund | all |  |  | a lake |  | with golden sands | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lake=Location |

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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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