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title: The children's parents had large wooden boxes there, in which vegeta… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The children's parents had large wooden boxes there, in which vegetables for the kitchen were planted, and little rosetrees besides: there was a rose in each box, and they grew splendidly. Who acts: parents, rosetrees besides. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen,
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 28

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The children's parents had large wooden boxes there, in which vegetables for the kitchen were planted, and little rosetrees besides: there was a rose in each box, and they grew splendidly.

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**Who acts:** parents, rosetrees besides · **What happens:** have, plant, be, grow · **To what, where:** large wooden boxes, vegetables, rose, box

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parents, rosetrees besides), 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:pg1597:11:28
# text = The children's parents had large wooden boxes there, in which vegetables for the kitchen were planted, and little rosetrees besides: there was a rose in each box, and they grew splendidly.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	boxes	box	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obl	_	_
13	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	planted	plant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
21	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	rosetrees	rosetree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	compound	_	_
23	besides	beside	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
25	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	26	expl	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
31	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
36	splendidly	splendidly	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the children's parents | large wooden boxes |  | there |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Patient |
| 2 | **plant** | past · passive |  | vegetables for the kitchen |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in which=Destination |
| 3 | **is a** | past | rosetrees besides | a rose |  | each box |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **grow** | past | parents *= parent* |  |  |  |  | splendidly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:** «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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