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title: Here is a water-lily that he had plucked himself, and watered with s… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Here is a water-lily that he had plucked himself, and watered with salt tears--a lily of sweet water. Who acts: water lily. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dumb Book, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dumb Book, sentence 25

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Here is a water-lily that he had plucked himself, and watered with salt tears--a lily of sweet water.

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**Who acts:** water lily · **What happens:** be, pluck, water · **To what, where:** water lily

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dumb Book. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water lily), 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:pg27200:29:25
# text = Here is a water-lily that he had plucked himself, and watered with salt tears--a lily of sweet water.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	lily	lily	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	plucked	pluck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	watered	water	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	lily	lily	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a water lily |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **pluck** | past · perfect · passive |  | a water lily |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary himself=Theme |
| 3 | **water** | past | a water lily *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with salt tears and a lily of sweet water | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with tear=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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