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title: Pleasure-boats, with their swelling sails, skim lightly over the wat… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Pleasure-boats, with their swelling sails, skim lightly over the watery mirror, like white butterflies. Who acts: Pleasure boats. 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 82

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Pleasure-boats, with their swelling sails, skim lightly over the watery mirror, like white butterflies.

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**Who acts:** Pleasure boats · **What happens:** skim · **To what, where:** watery mirror

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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 (Pleasure boats), 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:pg27200:66:82
# text = Pleasure-boats, with their swelling sails, skim lightly over the watery mirror, like white butterflies.
1	Pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	boats	boat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	swelling	swelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	sails	sail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	skim	skim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	lightly	lightly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	over	over	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	watery	watery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	mirror	mirror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **skim** | infinitive | Pleasure boats and flags's swelling sails |  |  | the watery mirror |  | like white butterflies; lightly *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: 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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