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title: The cover rose more and more; and the Elder-flowers came forth so fr… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The cover rose more and more; and the Elder-flowers came forth so fresh and white, and shot up long branches. Who acts: cover, Elder flowers. 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 29

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The cover rose more and more; and the Elder-flowers came forth so fresh and white, and shot up long branches.

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**Who acts:** cover, Elder flowers · **What happens:** rise, come, shoot up · **To what, where:** long branches

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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 (cover, Elder flowers), 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:pg1597:17:29
# text = The cover rose more and more; and the Elder-flowers came forth so fresh and white, and shot up long branches.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cover	cover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	Elder	Elder	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	shot	shoot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | the cover |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | past | the Elder flowers |  |  |  |  | forth, fresh *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **shoot up** | past | the Elder flowers *not said here* | long branches |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Patient |

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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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