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title: As Anne Lisbeth walked on she could hear her own footsteps in the sa… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: As Anne Lisbeth walked on she could hear her own footsteps in the sands; even the waves of the sea were at rest, and all in the deep waters had sunk into silence. Who acts: Anne, waves. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, with its dependency tree a
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 92

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As Anne Lisbeth walked on she could hear her own footsteps in the sands; even the waves of the sea were at rest, and all in the deep waters had sunk into silence.

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**Who acts:** Anne, waves · **What happens:** walk, hear, be, sink, wave · **To what, where:** own footsteps, sands, rest, all, silence, sea

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Anne, waves), 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:pg27200:5:92
# text = As Anne Lisbeth walked on she could hear her own footsteps in the sands; even the waves of the sea were at rest, and all in the deep waters had sunk into silence.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Anne	Anne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Lisbeth	Lisbeth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	footsteps	footstep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sands	sand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	even	even	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
27	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
32	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	sunk	sink	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
34	into	into	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past | Anne |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** | could | Anne | Anne's own footsteps |  | the sands |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer footstep=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | past | the waves of the sea |  |  | rest |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sink** | past · perfect · passive |  | all |  | silence |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **wave** |  |  | the sea |  |  |  |  | nom wave «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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