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title: She would swim much nearer the shore than any of the others ventured… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She would swim much nearer the shore than any of the others ventured to do; indeed once she went quite up the narrow channel under the marble balcony, which threw a broad shadow on the water. Who acts: water, any, marble balcony. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Anders
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 42

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She would swim much nearer the shore than any of the others ventured to do; indeed once she went quite up the narrow channel under the marble balcony, which threw a broad shadow on the water.

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**Who acts:** water, any, marble balcony · **What happens:** swim, venture, do, go, throw · **To what, where:** marble balcony, broad shadow, water

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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, any, marble balcony), 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:pg27200:76:42
# text = She would swim much nearer the shore than any of the others ventured to do; indeed once she went quite up the narrow channel under the marble balcony, which threw a broad shadow on the water.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	swim	swim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	much	much	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	parataxis	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
8	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	ventured	venture	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	20	advmod	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	channel	channel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	under	under	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	marble	marble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	balcony	balcony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
36	on	on	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swim** | would | water |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **venture** | past | any |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **do** | to-infinitive | any *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **go** | past | water |  |  | the marble balcony |  | up the narrow channel; once *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme up channel=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **throw** | past | the marble balcony | a broad shadow |  | the water |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent shadow=Theme on water=Destination |

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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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