--- title: “I am His gardener, I take all His flowers and trees, and plant them… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “I am His gardener, I take all His flowers and trees, and plant them out in the great garden of Paradise, in the unknown land; but how they grow there, and how it is there I dare not tell thee.” Who acts: Death, trees, land. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/21/69/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Andersen's Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/) / [The Story of a Mother](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/21/) / 69 # Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 69 “I am His gardener, I take all His flowers and trees, and plant them out in the great garden of Paradise, in the unknown land; but how they grow there, and how it is there I dare not tell thee.” **Who acts:** Death, trees, land · **What happens:** be, take, plant out, grow, not dare, not tell · **To what, where:** gardener, flowers, trees, great garden, thee · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Death, trees, land), 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:pg1597:21:69 # text = “I am His gardener, I take all His flowers and trees, and plant them out in the great garden of Paradise, in the unknown land; but how they grow there, and how it is there I dare not tell thee.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 gardener gardener NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 11 det:predet _ _ 10 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 plant plant VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 out out ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 Paradise Paradise PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 unknown unknown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ; ; PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 31 but but CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 34 advmod _ _ 33 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 35 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 34 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 38 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 41 advmod _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 40 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 41 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 34 conj _ _ 42 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 dare dare VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 parataxis _ _ 44 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 43 advmod _ _ 45 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 43 xcomp _ _ 46 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 45 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ” " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Death | Death's gardener | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **take** *in a quote* | present | Death | Death's flowers and trees | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme | | 3 | **plant out** *in a quote* | infinitive | Death *not said here* | trees *= tree* | | the great garden of Paradise | | in the unknown land | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in garden=Destination | | 4 | **grow** *in a quote* | present | trees *= tree* | | | there | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | land | | | | | there *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **dare** *in a quote* | present | Death | | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | Death *not said here* | | thee | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient | 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 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/21/68/) - next →: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/21/70/) - ↑ back to [The Story of a Mother](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/21/)