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title: And there is an Elder Tree standing beside it; and the cock is scrap… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And there is an Elder Tree standing beside it; and the cock is scraping away the earth for the hens, look, how he struts! Who acts: Elder Tree, cock, you. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 100

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And there is an Elder Tree standing beside it; and the cock is scraping away the earth for the hens, look, how he struts!

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**Who acts:** Elder Tree, cock, you · **What happens:** be, stand, scrape away, look, strut · **To what, where:** house, earth

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Elder Tree, cock, you), 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:pg1597:17:100
# text = And there is an Elder Tree standing beside it; and the cock is scraping away the earth for the hens, look, how he struts!
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Elder	Elder	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Tree	Tree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
7	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	scraping	scrape	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
16	away	away	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	hens	hen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
23	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	struts	strut	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | a Elder Tree |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | gerund | a Elder Tree *not said here* |  |  | house |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside it=Location |
| 3 | **scrape away** | present · progressive | the cock | the earth |  |  |  | for the hens; away *property* | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Patient |
| 4 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **strut** | present | cock |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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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