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title: They accompanied with blows of their hammers and with songs the part… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They accompanied with blows of their hammers and with songs the parting words of the vanishing Dryad. Who acts: fishes, hammers. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 119

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They accompanied with blows of their hammers and with songs the parting words of the vanishing Dryad.

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**Who acts:** fishes, hammers · **What happens:** accompany, vanish, blow, word · **To what, where:** vanishing Dryad

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fishes, hammers), 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:pg27200:26:119
# text = They accompanied with blows of their hammers and with songs the parting words of the vanishing Dryad.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	accompanied	accompany	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	blows	blow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	hammers	hammer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	parting	parting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	vanishing	vanish	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	amod	_	_
17	Dryad	Dryad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accompany** | past | fishes *= fish* |  |  |  |  | with blows of fishes's hammers and songs and the parting words of the vanishing Dryad | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **vanish** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **blow** |  | fishes's hammers and songs and the parting words of the vanishing Dryad |  |  |  |  |  | nom blow «act intransitive»: of=agent |
| 4 | **word** |  |  | the vanishing Dryad |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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