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title: The rushing of the water through the sluices, and the scream of the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The rushing of the water through the sluices, and the scream of the wild ducks, were almost the only signs of active life at Silkborg. Who acts: scream, wild ducks. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 25

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The rushing of the water through the sluices, and the scream of the wild ducks, were almost the only signs of active life at Silkborg.

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**Who acts:** scream, wild ducks · **What happens:** rush, be, scream · **To what, where:** sluices, only signs

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. 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 (scream, wild ducks), 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:pg27200:51:25
# text = The rushing of the water through the sluices, and the scream of the wild ducks, were almost the only signs of active life at Silkborg.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rushing	rush	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sluices	sluice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	scream	scream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	wild	wild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	ducks	duck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
19	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	active	active	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Silkborg	Silkborg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rush** | gerund |  |  |  | the sluices |  | of the water | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of water=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the scream of the wild ducks | the only signs |  |  |  | of active life at Silkborg; almost *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **scream** |  | the wild ducks |  |  |  |  |  | nom scream «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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