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title: Waters roared beneath them, or fell in cascades from above. — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Waters roared beneath them, or fell in cascades from above. Who acts: Waters. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VII. the Eagle's Nest, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VII. the Eagle's Nest, sentence 17

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Waters roared beneath them, or fell in cascades from above.

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**Who acts:** Waters · **What happens:** roar, fall · **To what, where:** cascades

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VII. the Eagle's Nest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Waters), 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:pg27200:58:17
# text = Waters roared beneath them, or fell in cascades from above.
1	Waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	roared	roar	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	cascades	cascade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	above	above	ADV	RB	_	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roar** | past | Waters |  |  |  |  | beneath stones *= stone* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath they=Location |
| 2 | **fall** | past | Waters *not said here* |  |  | cascades |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in cascade=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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