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title: As the glowing lotus-flower, torn from its stem, is carried away by… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: As the glowing lotus-flower, torn from its stem, is carried away by the stream, so the Dryad drifted along. Who acts: stream, Dryad, world. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 107

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As the glowing lotus-flower, torn from its stem, is carried away by the stream, so the Dryad drifted along.

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**Who acts:** stream, Dryad, world · **What happens:** glow, tear, carry away, drift along, stem · **To what, where:** glowing lotus flower, stem

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stream, Dryad, world), 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:pg27200:25:107
# text = As the glowing lotus-flower, torn from its stem, is carried away by the stream, so the Dryad drifted along.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	glowing	glow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
4	lotus	lotus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	torn	tear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	stem	stem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	away	away	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Dryad	Dryad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	drifted	drift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
24	along	along	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tear** | participle |  | the glowing lotus flower *not said here* |  | world's stem |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from stem=Trajectory |
| 3 | **carry away** | present · passive | the stream |  |  |  |  | as the glowing lotus flower; away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **drift along** | past | the Dryad |  |  |  |  | along *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **stem** |  | world |  |  |  |  |  | nom stem «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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