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title: In the centre of the largest saloon a fountain threw its sparkling j… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In the centre of the largest saloon a fountain threw its sparkling jets high up into the glass cupola of the ceiling, through which the sun shone down upon the water and upon the beautiful plants growing round the basin of the fountain. Who acts: fountain, sun, beautiful plants. A sentence of «Fairy
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 40

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In the centre of the largest saloon a fountain threw its sparkling jets high up into the glass cupola of the ceiling, through which the sun shone down upon the water and upon the beautiful plants growing round the basin of the fountain.

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**Who acts:** fountain, sun, beautiful plants · **What happens:** throw, shine down, grow · **To what, where:** sparkling jets, centre

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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 (fountain, sun, beautiful plants), 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:pg27200:76:40
# text = In the centre of the largest saloon a fountain threw its sparkling jets high up into the glass cupola of the ceiling, through which the sun shone down upon the water and upon the beautiful plants growing round the basin of the fountain.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	saloon	saloon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fountain	fountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	sparkling	sparkling	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	jets	jet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
15	up	up	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	cupola	cupola	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	through	through	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	obl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
29	down	down	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
34	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	_
38	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	37	acl	_	_
39	round	round	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	basin	basin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	fountain	fountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | past | a fountain | fountain's sparkling jets |  | the centre of the largest saloon |  | into the glass cupola of the ceiling *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer jet=Theme into cupola=Result |
| 2 | **shine down** | past | the sun |  |  |  |  | upon the water and the beautiful plants; down *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through which=Location |
| 3 | **grow** | gerund | the beautiful plants *not said here* |  |  |  |  | round the basin of the fountain | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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