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title: Vertigo and his sisters were dancing upon it, and raising these circ… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Vertigo and his sisters were dancing upon it, and raising these circles on the foaming river. Who acts: Vertigo. 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 6

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Vertigo and his sisters were dancing upon it, and raising these circles on the foaming river.

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**Who acts:** Vertigo · **What happens:** dance, raise · **To what, where:** tree, circles, foaming river

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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 (Vertigo), 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:pg27200:65:6
# text = Vertigo and his sisters were dancing upon it, and raising these circles on the foaming river.
1	Vertigo	vertigo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	raising	raise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
12	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	circles	circle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	foaming	foaming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dance** | past · progressive | Vertigo and sun's sisters |  |  | tree |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon it=Location |
| 2 | **raise** | gerund | Vertigo and sun's sisters *not said here* | this circles |  | the foaming river |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent circle=Theme on river=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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