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title: The court adjoined a garden, and all was in flower; the roses hung s… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The court adjoined a garden, and all was in flower; the roses hung so fresh and odorous over the balustrade, the lindens were in blossom, the Swallows flew by, and said, “Quirre-vit! Who acts: court, roses, lindens, Swallows. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree, wi
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 192

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The court adjoined a garden, and all was in flower; the roses hung so fresh and odorous over the balustrade, the lindens were in blossom, the Swallows flew by, and said, “Quirre-vit!

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**Who acts:** court, roses, lindens, Swallows · **What happens:** adjoin, be, hang, fly by, say · **To what, where:** garden, flower, blossom · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (court, roses, lindens, Swallows), 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:pg1597:10:192
# text = The court adjoined a garden, and all was in flower; the roses hung so fresh and odorous over the balustrade, the lindens were in blossom, the Swallows flew by, and said, “Quirre-vit!
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	adjoined	adjoin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	odorous	odorous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
20	over	over	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	balustrade	balustrade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	lindens	linden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	blossom	blossom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Swallows	Swallow	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
33	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	Quirre	Quirre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	vit	vit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **adjoin** | past | the court | a garden |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme garden=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  | all flower |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hang** | past | the roses |  |  |  |  | fresh *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | the lindens |  |  | blossom |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **fly by** | past | the Swallows |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the roses *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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