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title: There stood beautiful palm-trees, oaks, and plantains; there stood p… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There stood beautiful palm-trees, oaks, and plantains; there stood parsley and flowering thyme: every tree and every flower had its name; each of them was a human life, the human frame still lived--one in China, and another in Greenland--round about in the world. Who acts: flower, each, human frame,
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 52

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There stood beautiful palm-trees, oaks, and plantains; there stood parsley and flowering thyme: every tree and every flower had its name; each of them was a human life, the human frame still lived--one in China, and another in Greenland--round about in the world.

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**Who acts:** flower, each, human frame, thyme · **What happens:** stand, flower, have, be, live, name · **To what, where:** beautiful palm trees, Greenland, parsley, name, human life

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. 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 (flower, each, human frame, thyme), 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:pg1597:21:52
# text = There stood beautiful palm-trees, oaks, and plantains; there stood parsley and flowering thyme: every tree and every flower had its name; each of them was a human life, the human frame still lived--one in China, and another in Greenland--round about in the world.
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	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	palm	palm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	oaks	oak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	plantains	plantain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	14	expl	_	_
14	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	parsley	parsley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	flowering	flower	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	amod	_	_
18	thyme	thyme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
20	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
26	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
29	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	nsubj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nmod	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	frame	frame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
40	still	still	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	parataxis	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
48	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	50	det	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	Greenland	Greenland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	round	round	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
53	about	about	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
54	in	in	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	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 |  | beautiful palm trees and oaks |  | another Greenland; there |  | about the world; every tree *obl*; round *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tree=Theme in greenland=Destination |
| 2 | **stand** | past |  | parsley and flowering thyme |  | there |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer parsley=Stimulus |
| 3 | **flower** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | past | every flower | thyme's name |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient |
| 5 | **is a** | past | each | a human life and the human frame |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **live** | past | the human frame *not said here* |  |  |  | still |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **name** |  | thyme |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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