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description: Others tread the air as a swimmer treads the water, and lure their victims here and there till they fall into the deep abyss. Who acts: Others, swimmer, victims. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 84

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Others tread the air as a swimmer treads the water, and lure their victims here and there till they fall into the deep abyss.

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**Who acts:** Others, swimmer, victims · **What happens:** tread, lure, fall · **To what, where:** air, water, victims, deep abyss

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Others, swimmer, victims), 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:pg27200:52:84
# text = Others tread the air as a swimmer treads the water, and lure their victims here and there till they fall into the deep abyss.
1	Others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	tread	tread	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	swimmer	swimmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	treads	tread	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	lure	lure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	victims	victim	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	conj	_	_
19	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	abyss	abyss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tread** | present | Others | the air |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location air=Theme |
| 2 | **tread** | present | a swimmer | the water |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location water=Theme |
| 3 | **lure** | infinitive | Others *not said here* | waters's victims |  | here |  |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent victim=Patient |
| 4 | **fall** | present | victims *= victim* |  |  |  |  | into the deep abyss *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into abyss=Result |

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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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