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title: Here stood old flower-pots with faces and asses' ears, and the flowe… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Here stood old flower-pots with faces and asses' ears, and the flowers grew just as they liked. Who acts: flowers. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 24

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Here stood old flower-pots with faces and asses' ears, and the flowers grew just as they liked.

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**Who acts:** flowers · **What happens:** stand, grow, like · **To what, where:** old flower pots

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flowers), 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:pg1597:19:24
# text = Here stood old flower-pots with faces and asses' ears, and the flowers grew just as they liked.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	pots	pot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	asses	ass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	just	just	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past |  | old flower pots |  | here |  | with faces and asses's ears | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pot=Stimulus |
| 2 | **grow** | past | the flowers |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **like** | past | flowers *= flower* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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