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title: Artificial grottoes surrounded bodies of fresh or salt water, and ga… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Artificial grottoes surrounded bodies of fresh or salt water, and gave a glimpse into the empire of the fishes; the visitor seemed to wander at the bottom of the sea, among fishes and polypi. Who acts: Artificial grottoes, visitor. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Ande
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 108

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Artificial grottoes surrounded bodies of fresh or salt water, and gave a glimpse into the empire of the fishes; the visitor seemed to wander at the bottom of the sea, among fishes and polypi.

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**Who acts:** Artificial grottoes, visitor · **What happens:** surround, give, seem, wander · **To what, where:** glimpse, empire, bottom

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, 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 (Artificial grottoes, visitor), 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:pg27200:24:108
# text = Artificial grottoes surrounded bodies of fresh or salt water, and gave a glimpse into the empire of the fishes; the visitor seemed to wander at the bottom of the sea, among fishes and polypi.
1	Artificial	artificial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	grottoes	grotto	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
3	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nmod	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	glimpse	glimpse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	empire	empire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	fishes	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	visitor	visitor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	wander	wander	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	among	among	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	fishes	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	polypi	polypi	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **surround** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | past | Artificial grottoes and surrounded bodies of fresh or salt water | a glimpse |  | the empire of the fishes |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glimpse=Theme |
| 3 | **seem** | past | the visitor |  |  |  |  | among fishes and polypi | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **wander** | to-infinitive | the visitor *not said here* |  |  | the bottom of the sea |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at bottom=Trajectory |

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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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