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title: Large rocks, covered with moss of various hues, were lying about; th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Large rocks, covered with moss of various hues, were lying about; the fresh spring water rippled forth with a peculiar sound. " Who acts: Large rocks. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell, sentence 34

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Large rocks, covered with moss of various hues, were lying about; the fresh spring water rippled forth with a peculiar sound. "

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**Who acts:** Large rocks · **What happens:** cover, lie, ripple · **To what, where:** Large rocks, fresh spring water

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Large rocks), 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:pg27200:9:34
# text = Large rocks, covered with moss of various hues, were lying about; the fresh spring water rippled forth with a peculiar sound. "
1	Large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	moss	moss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	hues	hue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
13	about	about	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
19	rippled	ripple	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	peculiar	peculiar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | participle |  | Large rocks *not said here* |  |  |  | with moss of various hues | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with moss=Theme |
| 2 | **lie** | past · progressive | Large rocks | the fresh spring water |  |  |  | about *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location water=Theme |
| 3 | **ripple** | participle |  | the fresh spring water *not said here* |  |  |  | with a peculiar sound; forth *property* | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with sound=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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