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title: The clear water of the river rolled over its yellow bed, and willows… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The clear water of the river rolled over its yellow bed, and willows and lime-trees were reflected in it, as Rudy stepped along the path to the miller's house. Who acts: clear water, Rudy. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette, with its dependency tree
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 62

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The clear water of the river rolled over its yellow bed, and willows and lime-trees were reflected in it, as Rudy stepped along the path to the miller's house.

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**Who acts:** clear water, Rudy · **What happens:** roll, reflect, step · **To what, where:** yellow bed, willows, water, house

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clear water, Rudy), 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:pg27200:55:62
# text = The clear water of the river rolled over its yellow bed, and willows and lime-trees were reflected in it, as Rudy stepped along the path to the miller's house.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	over	over	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
14	willows	willow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	lime	lime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	reflected	reflect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	stepped	step	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
27	along	along	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	miller	miller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	's	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	_
34	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll** | past | the clear water of the river |  |  | water's yellow bed |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over bed=Trajectory |
| 2 | **reflect** | past · passive |  | willows and lime trees |  | water |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **step** | past | Rudy |  |  | the miller's house |  | along the path | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to house=Destination |

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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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