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title: Far out in the ocean, where the water is as blue as the prettiest co… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Far out in the ocean, where the water is as blue as the prettiest cornflower, and as clear as crystal, it is very, very deep; so deep, indeed, that no cable could fathom it: many church steeples, piled one upon another, would not reach from the ground beneath to the surface of the water above. Who a
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 1

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Far out in the ocean, where the water is as blue as the prettiest cornflower, and as clear as crystal, it is very, very deep; so deep, indeed, that no cable could fathom it: many church steeples, piled one upon another, would not reach from the ground beneath to the surface of the water above.

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**Who acts:** ocean, water, cable, many church steeples · **What happens:** be, fathom, pile, not reach · **To what, where:** water, one, another, ground

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ocean, water, cable, many church steeples), 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:pg27200:75:1
# text = Far out in the ocean, where the water is as blue as the prettiest cornflower, and as clear as crystal, it is very, very deep; so deep, indeed, that no cable could fathom it: many church steeples, piled one upon another, would not reach from the ground beneath to the surface of the water above.
1	Far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
2	out	out	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	12	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	as	as	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	amod	_	_
16	cornflower	cornflower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	as	as	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	crystal	crystal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
26	very	very	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	very	very	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	so	so	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
36	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
37	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	38	det	_	_
38	cable	cable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
39	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	fathom	fathom	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	parataxis	_	_
41	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	45	punct	_	_
43	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
44	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	steeples	steeple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
47	piled	pile	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	acl:relcl	_	_
48	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	47	obj	_	_
49	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
52	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
53	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	54	advmod	_	_
54	reach	reach	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	45	parataxis	_	_
55	from	from	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	_
58	beneath	beneath	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
59	to	to	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obl	_	_
62	of	of	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
63	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
64	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	nmod	_	_
65	above	above	ADV	RB	_	64	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the ocean |  |  |  |  | as the prettiest cornflower; blue, indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the ocean *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as crystal | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | water |  |  |  |  | deep *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | the ocean *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **fathom** | could | no cable | water |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 6 | **pile** | past | many church steeples *not said here* | one |  | another |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Theme upon another=Destination |
| 7 | **not** **reach** | would |  |  |  | the ground |  | beneath *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «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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