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title: It took root, put forth green shoots, and grew up to be the large tr… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It took root, put forth green shoots, and grew up to be the large tree under which we old folks are now sitting.' Who acts: It, we. 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 48

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It took root, put forth green shoots, and grew up to be the large tree under which we old folks are now sitting.'

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**Who acts:** It, we · **What happens:** take, put, grow up, be, sit · **To what, where:** root, green shoots, large tree

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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 (It, we), 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:pg1597:17:48
# text = It took root, put forth green shoots, and grew up to be the large tree under which we old folks are now sitting.'
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
6	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	shoots	shoot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	advcl	_	_
18	under	under	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obl	_	_
20	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
21	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	folks	folk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
25	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | It | root |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Theme |
| 2 | **put** | infinitive |  | green shoots |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent shoot=Goal |
| 3 | **grow up** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | the large tree |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **sit** | present · progressive | we |  |  | the large tree | now |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under which=Location |

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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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