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title: She now came to a space of marshy ground in the wood, where large, f… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She now came to a space of marshy ground in the wood, where large, fat water-snakes were rolling in the mire, and showing their ugly, drab-colored bodies. Who acts: She, fat water snakes. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, with its d
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 1

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She now came to a space of marshy ground in the wood, where large, fat water-snakes were rolling in the mire, and showing their ugly, drab-colored bodies.

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**Who acts:** She, fat water snakes · **What happens:** come, roll, show, color · **To what, where:** space, mire, ugly colored bodies

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (She, fat water snakes), 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:pg27200:77:1
# text = She now came to a space of marshy ground in the wood, where large, fat water-snakes were rolling in the mire, and showing their ugly, drab-colored bodies.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	marshy	marshy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
15	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	mire	mire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	showing	show	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
30	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
32	drab	drab	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	colored	color	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	amod	_	_
35	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | She |  |  | a space of marshy ground in the wood | now |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to space=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **roll** | past · progressive | fat water snakes |  |  | the mire |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mire=Trajectory |
| 3 | **show** | gerund | She *not said here* | snakes's ugly colored bodies |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent body=Recipient |
| 4 | **color** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=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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