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title: The burdock never grows alone, but where there grows one there alway… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The burdock never grows alone, but where there grows one there always grow several: it is a great delight, and all this delightfulness is snails' food. Who acts: burdock, delightfulness. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family, sentence 2

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The burdock never grows alone, but where there grows one there always grow several: it is a great delight, and all this delightfulness is snails' food.

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**Who acts:** burdock, delightfulness · **What happens:** not grow, grow, be · **To what, where:** one, several, great delight, food

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (burdock, delightfulness), 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:pg1597:20:2
# text = The burdock never grows alone, but where there grows one there always grow several: it is a great delight, and all this delightfulness is snails' food.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	burdock	burdock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	advmod	_	_
9	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
10	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	obj	_	_
12	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
13	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	14	advmod	_	_
14	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
15	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
24	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	26	det:predet	_	_
25	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	delightfulness	delightfulness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	snails	snail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	'	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **grow** | present | the burdock |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | present | the burdock *not said here* | one |  | there |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** | present | the burdock *not said here* | several |  | there |  | always *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location several=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present | burdock | a great delight and snails's food |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | present | all delightfulness | snails's food |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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