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title: The bubbling spring formed not a stream, but a marsh, round which al… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The bubbling spring formed not a stream, but a marsh, round which also they were obliged to guide the horse; still there were strength and refreshment in the cool forest breeze, and no trifling power in the gentle words spoken in faith and Christian love by the young priest, whose inmost heart yearn
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 36

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The bubbling spring formed not a stream, but a marsh, round which also they were obliged to guide the horse; still there were strength and refreshment in the cool forest breeze, and no trifling power in the gentle words spoken in faith and Christian love by the young priest, whose inmost heart yearned to lead this poor lost one into the way of light and life.

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**Who acts:** bubbling spring, marsh, trifling power, this · **What happens:** bubble, not form, oblige, guide, be, speak · **To what, where:** stream, round, horse, strength, cool forest breeze, gentle words · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bubbling spring, marsh, trifling power, this), 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:pg27200:86:36
# text = The bubbling spring formed not a stream, but a marsh, round which also they were obliged to guide the horse; still there were strength and refreshment in the cool forest breeze, and no trifling power in the gentle words spoken in faith and Christian love by the young priest, whose inmost heart yearned to lead this poor lost one into the way of light and life.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	bubbling	bubble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	formed	form	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	marsh	marsh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	round	round	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	also	also	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	guide	guide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	still	still	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	26	expl	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	refreshment	refreshment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	breeze	breeze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
37	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	39	det	_	_
38	trifling	trifling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nsubj	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	_
44	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	43	acl	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
48	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	conj	_	_
50	by	by	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
55	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	57	nmod:poss	_	_
56	inmost	inmost	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	appos	_	_
58	yearned	yearn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
59	to	to	PART	TO	_	60	mark	_	_
60	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	58	xcomp	_	_
61	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	63	nsubj	_	_
62	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	63	nsubj	_	_
63	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	60	ccomp	_	_
64	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	63	obj	_	_
65	into	into	ADP	IN	_	67	case	_	_
66	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	67	det	_	_
67	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	obl	_	_
68	of	of	ADP	IN	_	69	case	_	_
69	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	67	nmod	_	_
70	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	71	cc	_	_
71	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	69	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
72	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bubble** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
| 2 | **not** **form** | past | the bubbling spring | a stream |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stream=Theme |
| 3 | **oblige** | past · passive |  | round |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result |
| 4 | **guide** | to-infinitive |  | the horse |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | past | a marsh and round | strength and refreshment |  | the cool forest breeze |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **speak** *speech: other* | participle |  | the gentle words *not said here* |  | faith and Christian love |  | by the young priest | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **yearn** | past | no trifling power in the gentle words |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 8 | **lead** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | no trifling power in the gentle words *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result |
| 9 | **lose** | past | this | one |  | the way of light and life |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Eventuality |

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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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