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title: They had to go round little pools, like lakes, enclosed between larg… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They had to go round little pools, like lakes, enclosed between large masses of ice; and, while thus wandering out of their path, they came near an immense stone, which lay balanced on the edge of an icy peak. Who acts: torrents. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Anders
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 36

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They had to go round little pools, like lakes, enclosed between large masses of ice; and, while thus wandering out of their path, they came near an immense stone, which lay balanced on the edge of an icy peak.

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**Who acts:** torrents · **What happens:** have, go round, enclose, wonder, come, balance · **To what, where:** little pools, path, immense stone, edge

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (torrents), 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:pg27200:53:36
# text = They had to go round little pools, like lakes, enclosed between large masses of ice; and, while thus wandering out of their path, they came near an immense stone, which lay balanced on the edge of an icy peak.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	round	round	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	pools	pool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	enclosed	enclose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
13	between	between	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	masses	mass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
31	near	near	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	immense	immense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
37	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	balanced	balance	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl:relcl	_	_
39	on	on	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	icy	icy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	peak	peak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | torrents *= torrent* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go round** | to-infinitive | torrents *= torrent* *not said here* | little pools and lakes |  |  |  | round *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **enclose** | participle |  | little pools and lakes *not said here* |  |  |  | between large masses of ice | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | torrents *= torrent* *not said here* |  |  | torrents's path |  | thus *property* | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **come** | past | torrents *= torrent* |  |  | a immense stone |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near stone=Location |
| 6 | **balance** | past · passive |  | a immense stone |  | the edge of a icy peak |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme on edge=Location |

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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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