--- title: There lay the Elder-blossom, as fresh as if it had been placed there… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: There lay the Elder-blossom, as fresh as if it had been placed there but a short time before; and Remembrance nodded, and the old people, decked with crowns of gold, sat in the flush of the evening sun. They closed their eyes, and--and--! Who acts: Remembrance, blossoms. 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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 (Remembrance, blossoms), 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:pg1597:17:142 # text = There lay the Elder-blossom, as fresh as if it had been placed there but a short time before; and Remembrance nodded, and the old people, decked with crowns of gold, sat in the flush of the evening sun. They closed their eyes, and--and--! 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 lay lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 Elder Elder PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 blossom blossom NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 as as ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 10 as as SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 11 if if SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 placed place VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 advcl _ _ 16 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 15 advmod _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 21 before before ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 Remembrance Remembrance PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 nodded nod VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 decked deck VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 acl _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 crowns crown NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 flush flush NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 compound _ _ 45 sun. sun. NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod _ _ 46 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 47 closed close VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 acl:relcl _ _ 48 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 49 nmod:poss _ _ 49 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 2 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 52 -- -- PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 53 and and CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 54 -- -- PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 55 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie** | past | | the Elder blossom | | there | | before *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location blossom=Theme | | 2 | **place** | past · perfect · passive | | Prayer | | there | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **nod** | past | Remembrance | | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **deck** | participle | | the old people *not said here* | | | | with crowns of gold | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with crown=Theme | | 5 | **sit** | past | Remembrance *not said here* | | | the flush of the evening sun. | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in flush=Location | | 6 | **close** | past | blossoms *= blossom* | blossoms's eyes | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | | 7 | **crown** | | | gold | | | | | nom crown «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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. 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. - ← previous: [sentence 141](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/17/141/) - next →: [sentence 143](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/17/143/) - ↑ back to [The Elderbush](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/17/)