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title: In the fields the corn was waving like the sea; in the ditches red a… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In the fields the corn was waving like the sea; in the ditches red and yellow flowers were growing; while wild-drone flowers, and blooming convolvuluses were creeping in the hedges; and towards evening the moon rose round and large, and the haycocks in the meadows smelt so sweetly. Who acts: corn, y
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 118

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In the fields the corn was waving like the sea; in the ditches red and yellow flowers were growing; while wild-drone flowers, and blooming convolvuluses were creeping in the hedges; and towards evening the moon rose round and large, and the haycocks in the meadows smelt so sweetly.

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**Who acts:** corn, yellow flowers, blooming, moon, haycocks · **What happens:** wave, grow, bloom, creep, rise, smelt · **To what, where:** convolvuluses, hedges

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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 (corn, yellow flowers, blooming, moon), 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:pg1597:17:118
# text = In the fields the corn was waving like the sea; in the ditches red and yellow flowers were growing; while wild-drone flowers, and blooming convolvuluses were creeping in the hedges; and towards evening the moon rose round and large, and the haycocks in the meadows smelt so sweetly.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	waving	wave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	ditches	ditch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
15	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	drone	drone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	blooming	bloom	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	csubj	_	_
30	convolvuluses	convolvulus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
31	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	creeping	creep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	hedges	hedge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
38	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
42	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	parataxis	_	_
43	round	round	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	haycocks	haycock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	nsubj	_	_
50	in	in	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nmod	_	_
53	smelt	smelt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	conj	_	_
54	so	so	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
55	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wave** | past · progressive | the corn |  |  |  |  | like the sea; in the ditches and drone flowers; in the fields | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in field=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | past · progressive | yellow flowers |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bloom** | gerund |  | convolvuluses |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location convolvulus=Theme |
| 4 | **creep** | past · progressive | blooming |  |  | the hedges |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hedge=Trajectory |
| 5 | **rise** | past | the moon |  |  |  | evening | round *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **smelt** | present | the haycocks in the meadows |  |  |  |  | sweetly *property* | tree rules |

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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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