--- title: They afterwards came to a little house, made of branches and the bar… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: They afterwards came to a little house, made of branches and the bark of trees; a large wild apple-tree bent over it, as if it would shower down all its blessings on the roof, where roses were blooming. Who acts: others, tree, roses. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/18/34/) [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 Bell](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/18/) / 34 # Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 34 They afterwards came to a little house, made of branches and the bark of trees; a large wild apple-tree bent over it, as if it would shower down all its blessings on the roof, where roses were blooming. **Who acts:** others, tree, roses · **What happens:** come, make, bend, shower down, bloom, bless · **To what, where:** large wild apple tree, little house, tree, blessings, roof 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 (others, tree, roses), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg1597:18:34 # text = They afterwards came to a little house, made of branches and the bark of trees; a large wild apple-tree bent over it, as if it would shower down all its blessings on the roof, where roses were blooming. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 afterwards afterwards ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 branches branch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 bark bark NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 19 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 20 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 21 apple apple NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 24 bent bend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 acl _ _ 25 over over ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 as as SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 29 if if SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 shower shower VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 33 down down ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ _ 34 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 36 det:predet _ _ 35 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 blessings blessing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 37 on on ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 roof roof NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 41 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 44 advmod _ _ 42 roses rose NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nsubj _ _ 43 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 blooming bloom VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 39 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | others *= other* | a large wild apple tree | | a little house | | afterwards *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **make** | participle | | a little house *not said here* | | | | of branches and the bark of trees | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **bend** | participle | | a large wild apple tree *not said here* | | tree | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over it=Location | | 4 | **shower down** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | tree | tree's blessings | | the roof | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent blessing=Theme on roof=Destination | | 5 | **bloom** | past · progressive | roses | | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **bless** | | tree | | | the roof | | | nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=agent on=place | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/18/33/) - next →: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/18/35/) - ↑ back to [The Bell](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/18/)