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title: The soaring upwards of rockets, the splashing of fountains, and the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The soaring upwards of rockets, the splashing of fountains, and the popping of champagne corks accompanied the wild bacchantic dance. Who acts: soaring upwards, champagne corks. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, with its dependency tree and 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 69

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The soaring upwards of rockets, the splashing of fountains, and the popping of champagne corks accompanied the wild bacchantic dance.

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**Who acts:** soaring upwards, champagne corks · **What happens:** soar, accompany, splash, pop · **To what, where:** wild bacchantic dance, fountains

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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 (soaring upwards, champagne corks), 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:pg27200:26:69
# text = The soaring upwards of rockets, the splashing of fountains, and the popping of champagne corks accompanied the wild bacchantic dance.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	soaring	soar	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	upwards	upward	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	rockets	rocket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	splashing	splashing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	fountains	fountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	popping	popping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	champagne	champagne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	corks	cork	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	accompanied	accompany	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	bacchantic	bacchantic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **soar** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **accompany** | past | the soaring upwards of rockets | the wild bacchantic dance |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Theme |
| 3 | **splash** |  |  | fountains |  |  |  |  | nom splashing «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **pop** |  | champagne corks |  |  |  |  |  | nom popping «event intransitive»: of=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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