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title: On one side of the forest was a broad, deep river, the water flowed… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: On one side of the forest was a broad, deep river, the water flowed so rapidly that very few were able to swim against the stream. Who acts: water, few. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 86

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On one side of the forest was a broad, deep river, the water flowed so rapidly that very few were able to swim against the stream.

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**Who acts:** water, few · **What happens:** be, flow, swim · **To what, where:** broad deep river, one side, stream

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, few), 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:pg27200:71:86
# text = On one side of the forest was a broad, deep river, the water flowed so rapidly that very few were able to swim against the stream.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	flowed	flow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	very	very	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	nsubj	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	advcl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	swim	swim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	against	against	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | a broad deep river |  | one side of the forest |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **flow** | past | the water | a broad deep river *not said here* |  |  |  | rapidly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location river=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | few |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **swim** | to-infinitive | few *not said here* |  |  | the stream |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against stream=Trajectory |

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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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