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title: Woodroof and anemonies grew almost too high; blooming convolvuluses… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Woodroof and anemonies grew almost too high; blooming convolvuluses and blackberry-bushes hung in long garlands from tree to tree, where the nightingale sang and the sunbeams were playing: it was very beautiful, but it was no place for girls to go; their clothes would get so torn. Who acts: Woodroof
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 29

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Woodroof and anemonies grew almost too high; blooming convolvuluses and blackberry-bushes hung in long garlands from tree to tree, where the nightingale sang and the sunbeams were playing: it was very beautiful, but it was no place for girls to go; their clothes would get so torn.

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**Who acts:** Woodroof anemonies, nightingale, sunbeams, clothes · **What happens:** grow, bloom, hang, sing, play, be · **To what, where:** convolvuluses, long garlands, place

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Woodroof anemonies, nightingale, sunbeams, clothes), 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:pg1597:18:29
# text = Woodroof and anemonies grew almost too high; blooming convolvuluses and blackberry-bushes hung in long garlands from tree to tree, where the nightingale sang and the sunbeams were playing: it was very beautiful, but it was no place for girls to go; their clothes would get so torn.
1	Woodroof	woodroof	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	anemonies	anemony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	blooming	bloom	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
10	convolvuluses	convolvulus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	blackberry	blackberry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
15	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	garlands	garland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	27	advmod	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	sunbeams	sunbeam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
31	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
36	very	very	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
39	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
41	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
42	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	43	det	_	_
43	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
44	for	for	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nmod	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
49	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	52	nsubj	_	_
51	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	conj	_	_
53	so	so	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
54	torn	tear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	52	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | Woodroof anemonies |  |  |  |  | high *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bloom** | gerund | Woodroof anemonies *not said here* | convolvuluses and blackberry bushes |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location convolvulus=Theme |
| 3 | **hang** | participle |  | convolvuluses and blackberry bushes *not said here* |  | long garlands from tree |  | to tree | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in garland=Location |
| 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | the nightingale |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **play** | past · progressive | the sunbeams |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | past | nightingale |  |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **is a** | past | nightingale | no place |  |  |  | for girls | tree rules |
| 8 | **go** | to-infinitive | nightingale *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **get** | would | sunbeams's clothes |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 10 | **tear** | participle | sunbeams's clothes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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