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title: Then I sank down through the wavering ground, deep into the marsh be… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then I sank down through the wavering ground, deep into the marsh beneath, which closed like a wall around me; I found myself after a while in fresher water; still a power drew me down deeper and deeper. Who acts: I, marsh, power. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Ander
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 24

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Then I sank down through the wavering ground, deep into the marsh beneath, which closed like a wall around me; I found myself after a while in fresher water; still a power drew me down deeper and deeper.

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**Who acts:** I, marsh, power · **What happens:** sink down, close, find, draw down · **To what, where:** wavering ground, myself, me

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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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, marsh, power), 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:pg27200:87:24
# text = Then I sank down through the wavering ground, deep into the marsh beneath, which closed like a wall around me; I found myself after a while in fresher water; still a power drew me down deeper and deeper.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	wavering	wavering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	deep	deep	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	marsh	marsh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
14	beneath	beneath	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	closed	close	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	like	like	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	around	around	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	25	obj	_	_
27	after	after	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	fresher	fresh	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	32	amod	_	_
32	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	still	still	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
38	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	_
39	down	down	ADP	RP	_	37	compound:prt	_	_
40	deeper	deep	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	37	advmod	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	deeper	deep	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sink down** | past | I |  |  | the wavering ground | then | into the marsh; down *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **close** | past | the marsh |  |  |  |  | like a wall; around me | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **find** | past | I | myself |  |  | while |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Topic |
| 4 | **draw down** | past | a power | me |  |  | still | deep *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |

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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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