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title: Around the nicest green meads, where the deer were playing in the gr… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Around the nicest green meads, where the deer were playing in the grass, grew magnificent oaks and beeches; and if the bark of one of the trees was cracked, there grass and long creeping plants grew in the crevices. Who acts: deer, nicest green meads, grass. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 54

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Around the nicest green meads, where the deer were playing in the grass, grew magnificent oaks and beeches; and if the bark of one of the trees was cracked, there grass and long creeping plants grew in the crevices.

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**Who acts:** deer, nicest green meads, grass · **What happens:** play, grow, crack, creep · **To what, where:** grass, magnificent oaks, bark, crevices

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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 (deer, nicest green meads, grass), 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:pg1597:18:54
# text = Around the nicest green meads, where the deer were playing in the grass, grew magnificent oaks and beeches; and if the bark of one of the trees was cracked, there grass and long creeping plants grew in the crevices.
1	Around	around	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	nicest	nice	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
4	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	meads	mead	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	11	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
16	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	oaks	oak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	beeches	beech	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
23	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	cracked	crack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
34	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	40	expl	_	_
35	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
38	creeping	creep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	39	amod	_	_
39	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	_
40	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	crevices	crevice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | past · progressive | the deer |  |  | the grass |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **grow** | past | the nicest green meads | magnificent oaks and beeches |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location oak=Theme |
| 3 | **crack** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive |  | the bark of one of the trees |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **creep** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **grow** | past | grass and long creeping plants |  |  | the crevices; there |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in crevice=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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