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title: Then she dived deeply under the dark waters, rising and falling with… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she dived deeply under the dark waters, rising and falling with the waves, till at length she managed to reach the young prince, who was fast losing the power of swimming in that stormy sea. Who acts: water, young prince. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen,
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 12

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Then she dived deeply under the dark waters, rising and falling with the waves, till at length she managed to reach the young prince, who was fast losing the power of swimming in that stormy sea.

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**Who acts:** water, young prince · **What happens:** dive, rise, fall, manage, reach, be · **To what, where:** dark waters, length, young prince, power, stormy sea

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, young prince), 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:pg27200:76:12
# text = Then she dived deeply under the dark waters, rising and falling with the waves, till at length she managed to reach the young prince, who was fast losing the power of swimming in that stormy sea.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dived	dive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	deeply	deeply	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	under	under	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	till	till	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	managed	manage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	acl:relcl	_	_
31	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	swimming	swimming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	39	det	_	_
38	stormy	stormy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dive** | past | water |  |  | the dark waters | then | deeply *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under water=Location |
| 2 | **rise** | gerund | water *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fall** | gerund | water *not said here* |  |  |  | till length | with the waves | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **manage** | past | water | length *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **reach** | to-infinitive | water *not said here* | the young prince |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent prince=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | past | the young prince |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **lose** | gerund | the young prince *not said here* | the power of swimming |  | that stormy sea |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Eventuality |

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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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