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title: One of the pots was quite overrun on all sides with pinks, that is t… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: One of the pots was quite overrun on all sides with pinks, that is to say, with the green part; shoot stood by shoot, and it said quite distinctly, “The air has cherished me, the sun has kissed me, and promised me a little flower on Sunday! a little flower on Sunday!” Who acts: that, shoot. A senten
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 25

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One of the pots was quite overrun on all sides with pinks, that is to say, with the green part; shoot stood by shoot, and it said quite distinctly, “The air has cherished me, the sun has kissed me, and promised me a little flower on Sunday! a little flower on Sunday!”

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**Who acts:** that, shoot · **What happens:** overrun, be, stand, say, cherish, kiss · **To what, where:** One, sides, air, sun, little flower, shoot · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (that, shoot), 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:pg1597:19:25
# text = One of the pots was quite overrun on all sides with pinks, that is to say, with the green part; shoot stood by shoot, and it said quite distinctly, “The air has cherished me, the sun has kissed me, and promised me a little flower on Sunday! a little flower on Sunday!”
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	pots	pot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	overrun	overrun	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	pinks	pink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	nsubj:outer	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
24	shoot	shoot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	shoot	shoot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
32	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	distinctly	distinctly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	cherished	cherish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	ccomp	_	_
40	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj:pass	_	_
44	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	parataxis	_	_
46	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	45	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
50	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	49	iobj	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	_
54	on	on	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	59	punct	_	_
57	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
58	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
60	on	on	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
61	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	59	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	59	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overrun** | past · passive |  | One of the pots |  | all sides with pinks |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | say *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **stand** | past | shoot |  |  |  |  | by shoot | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by shoot=Location |
| 4 | **say** *speech: express* | past | shoot |  |  |  |  | distinctly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **cherish** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | the air |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **kiss** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | the sun |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **promise** *speech: promise* *in a quote* | past | shoot *not said here* | a little flower | shoot |  |  | on Sunday; a little flower on Sunday *obl* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal flower=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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