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title: He glided over the waters of the Deluge, and smiled on Noah's ark ju… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He glided over the waters of the Deluge, and smiled on Noah's ark just as he lately glanced down upon me, and brought comfort and promise of a new world that was to spring forth from the old. Who acts: friend, new world. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eight
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eighth Evening, sentence 5

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He glided over the waters of the Deluge, and smiled on Noah's ark just as he lately glanced down upon me, and brought comfort and promise of a new world that was to spring forth from the old.

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**Who acts:** friend, new world · **What happens:** glide, smile, glance down, bring, be, promise · **To what, where:** waters, ark, comfort, old, new world

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eighth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend, new world), 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:pg27200:99:5
# text = He glided over the waters of the Deluge, and smiled on Noah's ark just as he lately glanced down upon me, and brought comfort and promise of a new world that was to spring forth from the old.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	glided	glide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	over	over	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Deluge	Deluge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	smiled	smile	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	Noah	Noah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	ark	ark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	just	just	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	lately	lately	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	glanced	glance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
21	down	down	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
27	comfort	comfort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
34	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	spring	spring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	acl:relcl	_	_
38	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	from	from	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glide** | past | friend |  |  | the waters of the Deluge |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over water=Trajectory |
| 2 | **smile** | past |  |  |  | Noah's ark |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **glance down** | past | friend |  |  |  |  | upon me; down, lately *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon i=Theme |
| 4 | **bring** | past | friend *not said here* | comfort and promise of a new world |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent comfort=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | a new world |  |  | the old |  | forth, spring *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **promise** |  |  | a new world |  |  |  |  | nom promise «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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