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title: Through the halls flowed a broad stream, and in it danced the mermen… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Through the halls flowed a broad stream, and in it danced the mermen and the mermaids to the music of their own sweet singing. Who acts: stream, walls. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 72

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Through the halls flowed a broad stream, and in it danced the mermen and the mermaids to the music of their own sweet singing.

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**Who acts:** stream, walls · **What happens:** flow, dance, sing · **To what, where:** broad stream, halls, mermen, music

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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 (stream, walls), 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:pg27200:76:72
# text = Through the halls flowed a broad stream, and in it danced the mermen and the mermaids to the music of their own sweet singing.
1	Through	through	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	halls	hall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
4	flowed	flow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	danced	dance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	mermen	merman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	mermaids	mermaid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
23	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	singing	singing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flow** | past |  | a broad stream |  | the halls |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stream=Theme |
| 2 | **dance** | past | stream | the mermen and the mermaids |  | the music of walls's own sweet singing |  |  | vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme merman=Destination to music=Trajectory |
| 3 | **sing** |  | walls *= wall* |  |  |  |  |  | nom singing «act transitive»: poss=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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