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title: Colored lamps surrounded little lakes, in which were water-plants of… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Colored lamps surrounded little lakes, in which were water-plants of colored metal, from whose flowers jets of water spurted up. Who acts: Colored lamps. 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 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 56

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Colored lamps surrounded little lakes, in which were water-plants of colored metal, from whose flowers jets of water spurted up.

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**Who acts:** Colored lamps · **What happens:** color, surround, be, spurt up · **To what, where:** little lakes, water plants, flowers jets

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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 (Colored lamps), 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:pg27200:26:56
# text = Colored lamps surrounded little lakes, in which were water-plants of colored metal, from whose flowers jets of water spurted up.
1	Colored	color	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	amod	_	_
2	lamps	lamp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	colored	color	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	compound	_	_
20	jets	jet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	spurted	spurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **color** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **surround** | participle | Colored lamps and water plants and flowers jets of water *not said here* | little lakes |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lake=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past | Colored lamps and water plants and flowers jets of water | water plants |  |  |  | of colored metal | tree rules |
| 4 | **color** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **spurt up** | participle |  | flowers jets of water *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |

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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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