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title: An uprooted fir-tree was being carried away by the current, and mark… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: An uprooted fir-tree was being carried away by the current, and marking out its path by eddying circles on the water. Who acts: current. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIV. Night Visions, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIV. Night Visions, sentence 5

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An uprooted fir-tree was being carried away by the current, and marking out its path by eddying circles on the water.

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**Who acts:** current · **What happens:** uproot, carry away, mark out, eddy · **To what, where:** uprooted fir tree, path, circles, water

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIV. Night Visions. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (current), 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:pg27200:65:5
# text = An uprooted fir-tree was being carried away by the current, and marking out its path by eddying circles on the water.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	uprooted	uproot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
3	fir	fir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
7	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	away	away	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	current	current	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	marking	mark	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	eddying	eddy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
21	circles	circle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **uproot** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **carry away** | past · passive | the current | a uprooted fir tree |  |  |  | away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 3 | **mark out** | gerund | the current *not said here* | tree's path |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent path=Destination |
| 4 | **eddy** | gerund | the current *not said here* | circles |  | the water |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location circle=Theme |

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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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