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title: In the fresh water grew water-lilies, nymphaea, and reeds; the gold-… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In the fresh water grew water-lilies, nymphaea, and reeds; the gold-fishes stood up below in rank and file, all turning their heads one way, that the streaming water might flow into their mouths. Who acts: fresh water, gold fishes, all, streaming water. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian A
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 87

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In the fresh water grew water-lilies, nymphaea, and reeds; the gold-fishes stood up below in rank and file, all turning their heads one way, that the streaming water might flow into their mouths.

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**Who acts:** fresh water, gold fishes, all, streaming water · **What happens:** grow, stand up, turn, flow · **To what, where:** water lilies, rank, heads, mouths

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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 (fresh water, gold fishes, all, streaming water), 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:pg27200:26:87
# text = In the fresh water grew water-lilies, nymphaea, and reeds; the gold-fishes stood up below in rank and file, all turning their heads one way, that the streaming water might flow into their mouths.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	lilies	lily	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	nymphaea	nymphaea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	reeds	reed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	fishes	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	below	below	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	rank	rank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	file	file	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	nsubj	_	_
28	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	acl	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
31	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	streaming	streaming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
38	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	flow	flow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
40	into	into	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	mouths	mouth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | the fresh water | water lilies and nymphaea |  |  |  | reeds *obl* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lily=Theme |
| 2 | **stand up** | past | the gold fishes |  |  | rank and file |  | below *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in rank=Location |
| 3 | **turn** | gerund | all | fishes's heads |  |  |  | one way *obl:unmarked* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme |
| 4 | **flow** | might | the streaming water |  |  | fishes's mouths |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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