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title: And then the little mermaid went out from her garden, and took the r… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And then the little mermaid went out from her garden, and took the road to the foaming whirlpools, behind which the sorceress lived. Who acts: little mermaid, foaming, sorceress. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, with its dependency
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 79

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And then the little mermaid went out from her garden, and took the road to the foaming whirlpools, behind which the sorceress lived.

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**Who acts:** little mermaid, foaming, sorceress · **What happens:** go out, take, whirlpool, live · **To what, where:** garden, road

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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 (little mermaid, foaming, sorceress), 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:pg27200:76:79
# text = And then the little mermaid went out from her garden, and took the road to the foaming whirlpools, behind which the sorceress lived.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	out	out	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	foaming	foaming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	whirlpools	whirlpool	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	sorceress	sorceress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | past | the little mermaid |  |  | mermaid's garden | then | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take** | past | the little mermaid *not said here* | the road |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme |
| 3 | **whirlpool** | present | the foaming |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **live** | past | the sorceress |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind which=Location |

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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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