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title: And they stood in a beech-wood that had just put on its first green,… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And they stood in a beech-wood that had just put on its first green, where the woodroof [*] at their feet sent forth its fragrance, and the pale-red anemony looked so pretty among the verdure. Who acts: pictures, feet, pale red anemony. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The E
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 113

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And they stood in a beech-wood that had just put on its first green, where the woodroof \[\*\] at their feet sent forth its fragrance, and the pale-red anemony looked so pretty among the verdure.

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**Who acts:** pictures, feet, pale red anemony · **What happens:** stand, put, send, look · **To what, where:** beech wood, feet, fragrance

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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 (pictures, feet, pale red anemony), 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:pg1597:17:113
# text = And they stood in a beech-wood that had just put on its first green, where the woodroof [*] at their feet sent forth its fragrance, and the pale-red anemony looked so pretty among the verdure.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	beech	beech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	just	just	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	16	amod	_	_
16	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	20	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	woodroof	woodroof	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	parataxis	_	_
21	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	*	*	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
27	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
28	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	fragrance	fragrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
34	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	anemony	anemony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
39	so	so	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
41	among	among	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	verdure	verdure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | pictures *= picture* |  |  | a beech wood |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in wood=Location |
| 2 | **put** | past · perfect · passive |  | a beech wood |  | pictures's feet |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme at foot=Destination |
| 3 | **send** | participle | pictures's feet *not said here* | hand's fragrance |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fragrance=Theme |
| 4 | **look** | past | the pale red anemony |  |  |  |  | among the verdure; pretty *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent among verdure=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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