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title: Merrily rippled the clear brooks and rivulets between the green, vel… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Merrily rippled the clear brooks and rivulets between the green, velvety rushes, and over the many-colored pebbles beneath. Who acts: Merrily. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 87

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Merrily rippled the clear brooks and rivulets between the green, velvety rushes, and over the many-colored pebbles beneath.

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**Who acts:** Merrily · **What happens:** ripple · **To what, where:** clear brooks

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Merrily), 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:pg27200:214:87
# text = Merrily rippled the clear brooks and rivulets between the green, velvety rushes, and over the many-colored pebbles beneath.
1	Merrily	Merrily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rippled	ripple	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	brooks	brook	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	rivulets	rivulet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	between	between	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	velvety	velvety	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	rushes	rush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	over	over	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	colored	colored	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	_
22	beneath	beneath	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ripple** | past | Merrily | the clear brooks and rivulets |  |  |  | between the green velvety rushes | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location brook=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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