---
title: Out of the spout even did they spread themselves on all sides, and g… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Out of the spout even did they spread themselves on all sides, and grew larger and larger; it was a splendid Elderbush, a whole tree; and it reached into the very bed, and pushed the curtains aside. Who acts: flowers, cover. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush, wi
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/17/30/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Andersen's Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/) / [The Elderbush](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/17/) / 30

# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 30

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Out of the spout even did they spread themselves on all sides, and grew larger and larger; it was a splendid Elderbush, a whole tree; and it reached into the very bed, and pushed the curtains aside.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** flowers, cover · **What happens:** spread, grow, be, reach, push · **To what, where:** flowers, spout, splendid Elderbush, bed, curtains

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (flowers, cover), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg1597:17:30
# text = Out of the spout even did they spread themselves on all sides, and grew larger and larger; it was a splendid Elderbush, a whole tree; and it reached into the very bed, and pushed the curtains aside.
1	Out	out	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	spout	spout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	even	even	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	xcomp	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	Elderbush	Elderbush	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
33	into	into	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	very	very	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	pushed	push	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	curtains	curtain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obj	_	_
42	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread** | past · do-support | flowers *= flower* | flowers *= flower* |  | the spout |  | on all sides | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme out spout=Destination |
| 2 | **grow** | past | flowers *= flower* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | large *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past | cover | a splendid Elderbush |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **reach** | past | cover |  |  | the bed |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent into bed=Path |
| 5 | **push** | past | cover *not said here* | the curtains |  |  |  | aside *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curtain=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/17/29/)
- next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/17/31/)
- ↑ back to [The Elderbush](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/17/)