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title: The stone lost its balance just as they reached it, and rolled over… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The stone lost its balance just as they reached it, and rolled over into the abyss beneath, while the noise of its fall was echoed back from every hollow cliff of the glaciers. Who acts: stone, torrents, fall. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, II. the Journey 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 37

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The stone lost its balance just as they reached it, and rolled over into the abyss beneath, while the noise of its fall was echoed back from every hollow cliff of the glaciers.

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**Who acts:** stone, torrents, fall · **What happens:** lose, reach, roll over, echo back, balance, noise · **To what, where:** balance, stone, abyss, noise, hollow cliff

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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 (stone, torrents, fall), 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:pg27200:53:37
# text = The stone lost its balance just as they reached it, and rolled over into the abyss beneath, while the noise of its fall was echoed back from every hollow cliff of the glaciers.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	balance	balance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	just	just	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	rolled	roll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
14	over	over	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	abyss	abyss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	beneath	beneath	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
20	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	echoed	echo	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
28	back	back	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	det	_	_
31	hollow	hollow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	cliff	cliff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	glaciers	glacier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | past | the stone | stone's balance |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent balance=Eventuality |
| 2 | **reach** | past | torrents *= torrent* | stone |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **roll over** | participle |  |  |  | the abyss |  | beneath, over *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into abyss=Destination |
| 4 | **echo back** | past · passive |  | the noise of stone's fall |  | every hollow cliff of the glaciers |  |  | vn sound\_existence-47.4 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **balance** |  | stone |  |  |  |  |  | nom balance «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **noise** |  | stone's fall |  |  |  |  |  | nom noise «event 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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