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title: "In the deep water!" she said to herself; "far down he lies, as if b… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "In the deep water!" she said to herself; "far down he lies, as if beneath a glacier." Who acts: head, hand. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 62

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"In the deep water!" she said to herself; "far down he lies, as if beneath a glacier."

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**Who acts:** head, hand · **What happens:** say, lie · **To what, where:** head, deep water · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. the Conclusion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head, hand), 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:pg27200:66:62
# text = "In the deep water!" she said to herself; "far down he lies, as if beneath a glacier."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
15	down	down	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	glacier	glacier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | head |  | head | the deep water |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient |
| 2 | **lie** *in a quote* | present | hand |  |  |  |  | as a glacier; down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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