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title: Here and there stood an apple and a plum-tree, or else one never wou… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family, sentence 5

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Here and there stood an apple and a plum-tree, or else one never would have thought that it was a garden; all was burdocks, and there lived the two last venerable old snails.

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**Who acts:** house · **What happens:** stand, not think, be, live · **To what, where:** apple, garden, burdocks, two last venerable old snails

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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 (house), 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:pg1597:20:5
# text = Here and there stood an apple and a plum-tree, or else one never would have thought that it was a garden; all was burdocks, and there lived the two last venerable old snails.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	conj	_	_
4	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	plum	plum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	else	else	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
16	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux	_	_
19	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
26	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	burdocks	burdock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	_
32	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
34	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
35	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
36	venerable	venerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	snails	snail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past |  | a apple and a plum tree |  | here |  | one *obl* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer apple=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | would · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | house | a garden |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | all burdocks |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **live** | past |  | the two last venerable old snails |  | there |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme snail=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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