--- title: She therefore went out in the garden, stretched out her crooked stic… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: She therefore went out in the garden, stretched out her crooked stick towards the rose-bushes, which, beautifully as they were blowing, all sank into the earth and no one could tell where they had stood. Who acts: Woman, rose bushes, one, bushes. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. 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Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Woman, rose bushes, one, bushes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg1597:12:45 # text = She therefore went out in the garden, stretched out her crooked stick towards the rose-bushes, which, beautifully as they were blowing, all sank into the earth and no one could tell where they had stood. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 therefore therefore ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 out out ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 stretched stretch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 10 out out ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 crooked crooked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 stick stick NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 towards towards ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 16 rose rose NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 bushes bush NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 20 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 beautifully beautifully ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 23 as as SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 blowing blowing ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 29 advmod _ _ 29 sank sink VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 30 into into ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 34 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 35 det _ _ 35 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 36 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 conj _ _ 38 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 41 advmod _ _ 39 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 40 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 stood stand VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 37 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go out** | past | Woman | | | the garden | | therefore *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **stretch out** | participle | Woman *not said here* | Woman's crooked stick | | the rose bushes | | | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards bush=Location | | 3 | **is** | past | the rose bushes | | | | | beautifully, blowing *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **sink** | past | | | | the earth | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | could | no one | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **stand** | past · perfect | bushes *= bush* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **Text:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. 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