--- title: There stood fine hyacinths under glass bells, and there stood strong… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: There stood fine hyacinths under glass bells, and there stood strong-stemmed peonies; there grew water plants, some so fresh, others half sick, the water-snakes lay down on them, and black crabs pinched their stalks. Who acts: others, black crabs. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. 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Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others, black crabs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg1597:21:51 # text = There stood fine hyacinths under glass bells, and there stood strong-stemmed peonies; there grew water plants, some so fresh, others half sick, the water-snakes lay down on them, and black crabs pinched their stalks. 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 hyacinths hyacinth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 under under ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 bells bell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 11 advmod _ _ 11 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 12 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 stemmed stem VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 amod _ _ 15 peonies peony NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 18 expl _ _ 18 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 19 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 24 nsubj _ _ 23 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 27 half half ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 28 advmod _ _ 28 sick sick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 31 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 34 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 35 down down ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 on on ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 40 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 crabs crab NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nsubj _ _ 42 pinched pinch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 43 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 stalks stalk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | past | | fine hyacinths | | glass bells; there | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hyacinth=Theme under bell=Destination | | 2 | **stand** | past | | stemmed peonies | | there | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer peony=Stimulus | | 3 | **stem** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **grow** | past | | water plants | | there | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location plant=Theme | | 5 | **lay down** | present | others | | | | | on snakes *= snake*; down *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on they=Destination | | 6 | **pinch** | past | black crabs | snakes's stalks | | | | | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stalk=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/21/50/) - next →: [sentence 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/21/52/) - ↑ back to [The Story of a Mother](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/21/)