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title: Down in the water dwelt also living beings, which, in their way, cou… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Down in the water dwelt also living beings, which, in their way, could fly under the water from one place to another--beings with knowledge and delineation. Who acts: living beings. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, with its dependency tree 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 25

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Down in the water dwelt also living beings, which, in their way, could fly under the water from one place to another--beings with knowledge and delineation.

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**Who acts:** living beings · **What happens:** dwell, fly · **To what, where:** living beings, water, way

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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 (living beings), 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:pg27200:24:25
# text = Down in the water dwelt also living beings, which, in their way, could fly under the water from one place to another--beings with knowledge and delineation.
1	Down	down	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	also	also	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	living	living	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	beings	being	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	_
18	under	under	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	beings	being	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	delineation	delineation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dwell** | past |  | living beings |  | the water |  | down *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme being=Location |
| 2 | **fly** | could | living beings |  |  | Butterflies's way |  | under the water; from one place to another and beings with knowledge and delineation | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=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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