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title: On one branch there hung little nets cut out of colored paper, and e… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: On one branch there hung little nets cut out of colored paper, and each net was filled with sugarplums; and among the other boughs gilded apples and walnuts were suspended, looking as though they had grown there, and little blue and white tapers were placed among the leaves. Who acts: little nets, a
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 75

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On one branch there hung little nets cut out of colored paper, and each net was filled with sugarplums; and among the other boughs gilded apples and walnuts were suspended, looking as though they had grown there, and little blue and white tapers were placed among the leaves.

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**Who acts:** little nets, apples · **What happens:** hang, cut out, color, fill, gild, suspend · **To what, where:** little nets, one branch, colored paper, net, gilded apples, other boughs

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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 (little nets, apples), 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:pg1597:10:75
# text = On one branch there hung little nets cut out of colored paper, and each net was filled with sugarplums; and among the other boughs gilded apples and walnuts were suspended, looking as though they had grown there, and little blue and white tapers were placed among the leaves.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	nets	net	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	colored	color	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	sugarplums	sugarplum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
23	among	among	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	boughs	bough	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
27	gilded	gild	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	amod	_	_
28	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	walnuts	walnut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
31	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	suspended	suspend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	advcl	_	_
35	as	as	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
36	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
37	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	34	advcl	_	_
40	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	39	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
46	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	tapers	taper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nsubj:pass	_	_
48	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	aux:pass	_	_
49	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	conj	_	_
50	among	among	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | past |  | little nets |  | one branch; there |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent net=Theme on branch=Destination |
| 2 | **cut out** | participle | little nets *not said here* | colored paper |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector paper=Eventuality |
| 3 | **color** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fill** | past · passive |  | each net |  |  |  | with sugarplums | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with sugarplum=Instrument |
| 5 | **gild** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **suspend** | past · passive |  | gilded apples and walnuts |  | the other boughs |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme among bough=Destination |
| 7 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 8 | **grow** | past · perfect | apples *= apple* |  |  | there |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **place** | past · passive |  | white tapers |  | the leaves |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme among leaf=Destination |

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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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