--- title: The water-lilies waved themselves to and fro on the river, everythin… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The water-lilies waved themselves to and fro on the river, everything made the excursion beautiful, and at last they came to the great eel-weir, where the water rushed through the flood-gates; and the children thought this a beautiful sight. Who acts: water lilies, everything, lilies, children. 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C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water lilies, everything, lilies, children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:51:23 # text = The water-lilies waved themselves to and fro on the river, everything made the excursion beautiful, and at last they came to the great eel-weir, where the water rushed through the flood-gates; and the children thought this a beautiful sight. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 lilies lily NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 waved wave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 5 obj _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 5 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 fro fro VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 15 nsubj _ _ 15 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 excursion excursion NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 at at ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 obl _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 27 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 28 eel eel NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 weir weir NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 30 nmod _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 35 rushed rush VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 acl _ _ 36 through through ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 38 flood flood NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 39 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 gates gate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ; ; PUNCT : _ 45 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 nsubj _ _ 45 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 46 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 45 obj _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 48 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wave** | past | the water lilies | lilies *= lily* | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient | | 2 | **fro** | infinitive | the water lilies *not said here* | | | the river | | | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | past | everything | the excursion | | | | beautiful *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material excursion=Product | | 4 | **come** | past | lilies *= lily* | | | last | | to the great eel weir | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to weir=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **rush** | participle | | the water *not said here* | | the flood gates | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through gate=Trajectory | | 6 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the children | this | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent this=Theme sight=Attribute | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/51/22/) - next →: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/51/24/) - ↑ back to [Ib and Little Christina](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/51/)