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title: As we rise out of the water, and behold all the land of the earth, s… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: As we rise out of the water, and behold all the land of the earth, so do they rise to unknown and glorious regions which we shall never see." Who acts: we, beings. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 58

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As we rise out of the water, and behold all the land of the earth, so do they rise to unknown and glorious regions which we shall never see."

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**Who acts:** we, beings · **What happens:** rise, not see · **To what, where:** water, unknown regions

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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 (we, beings), 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:pg27200:76:58
# text = As we rise out of the water, and behold all the land of the earth, so do they rise to unknown and glorious regions which we shall never see."
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rise	rise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	rise	rise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	glorious	glorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
26	regions	region	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	obj	_	_
28	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | present | we |  |  | the water |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out water=Location |
| 2 | **rise** | infinitive · do-support | beings *= being* |  |  | unknown regions |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to region=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **not** **see** | shall | we | unknown regions |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |

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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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