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title: The salmon will be leaping in the waterfalls, and dashing against th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The salmon will be leaping in the waterfalls, and dashing against the stone walls, but he will not be able to come in. Who acts: salmon. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 99

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The salmon will be leaping in the waterfalls, and dashing against the stone walls, but he will not be able to come in.

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**Who acts:** salmon · **What happens:** leap, dash, not be, come in · **To what, where:** waterfalls, stone walls

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (salmon), 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:pg27200:31:99
# text = The salmon will be leaping in the waterfalls, and dashing against the stone walls, but he will not be able to come in.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	salmon	salmon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
5	leaping	leap	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	waterfalls	waterfall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	dashing	dash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
12	against	against	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
22	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	in	in	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leap** | future · progressive | the salmon |  |  | the waterfalls |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in waterfall=Trajectory |
| 2 | **dash** | gerund | the salmon *not said here* |  |  | the stone walls |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against wall=Trajectory |
| 3 | **not** **is** | future | salmon |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **come in** | to-infinitive | salmon *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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