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title: Beneath me floated the waves, throwing long shadows on the so-called… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Beneath me floated the waves, throwing long shadows on the so-called graves of Odin, Thor, and Friga. Who acts: me. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Sixth Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Sixth Evening, sentence 3

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Beneath me floated the waves, throwing long shadows on the so-called graves of Odin, Thor, and Friga.

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**Who acts:** me · **What happens:** float, throw, call · **To what, where:** waves, long shadows, called graves · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Sixth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (me), 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:pg27200:97:3
# text = Beneath me floated the waves, throwing long shadows on the so-called graves of Odin, Thor, and Friga.
1	Beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	floated	float	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
8	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	shadows	shadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	so	so	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	graves	grave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Odin	Odin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	Thor	Thor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	Friga	Friga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **float** | past | me | the waves |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wave=Agent |
| 2 | **throw** | gerund | me *not said here* | long shadows |  | the called graves of Odin and Thor and Friga |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent shadow=Theme on grave=Destination |
| 3 | **call** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: 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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