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title: Near the green lawn papa's walking-stick was tied, and for the littl… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Near the green lawn papa's walking-stick was tied, and for the little ones it seemed to be endowed with life; for as soon as they got astride it, the round polished knob was turned into a magnificent neighing head, a long black mane fluttered in the breeze, and four slender yet strong legs shot out.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 93

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Near the green lawn papa's walking-stick was tied, and for the little ones it seemed to be endowed with life; for as soon as they got astride it, the round polished knob was turned into a magnificent neighing head, a long black mane fluttered in the breeze, and four slender yet strong legs shot out.

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**Who acts:** it, eyes, round · **What happens:** tie, seem, endow, get, polish, turn · **To what, where:** walking stick, little ones, knob, round, magnificent neighing head, long black mane

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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, eyes, round), 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:pg1597:17:93
# text = Near the green lawn papa's walking-stick was tied, and for the little ones it seemed to be endowed with life; for as soon as they got astride it, the round polished knob was turned into a magnificent neighing head, a long black mane fluttered in the breeze, and four slender yet strong legs shot out.
1	Near	near	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	lawn	lawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	papa	papa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	walking	walking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	endowed	endow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	xcomp	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	as	as	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	31	advmod	_	_
29	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
32	astride	astride	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	round	round	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj:pass	_	_
37	polished	polish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	acl	_	_
38	knob	knob	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
39	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux:pass	_	_
40	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	advcl	_	_
41	into	into	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
43	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
44	neighing	neigh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	45	amod	_	_
45	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
48	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
49	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	mane	mane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	conj	_	_
51	fluttered	flutter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	50	acl	_	_
52	in	in	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	breeze	breeze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
57	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	61	nummod	_	_
58	slender	slender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	amod	_	_
59	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	60	advmod	_	_
60	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	amod	_	_
61	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	62	nsubj:pass	_	_
62	shot	shoot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	advcl	_	_
63	out	out	ADP	RP	_	62	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tie** | past · passive |  | the green lawn papa's walking stick |  |  |  | for the little ones | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **seem** | past | it | the little ones *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **endow** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  | with life | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: with life=Theme |
| 4 | **get** | past | eyes *= eye* |  |  |  |  | astride stick; soon *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **polish** | participle | the round *not said here* | knob |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent knob=Destination |
| 6 | **turn** | past · passive |  | the round |  | a magnificent neighing head and a long black mane |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into head=Trajectory |
| 7 | **neigh** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **flutter** | participle |  | a long black mane *not said here* |  | the breeze |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in breeze=Location |
| 9 | **shoot out** | participle · passive |  | four slender strong legs |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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