--- title: It happened that where the Prince's father lay buried, there grew a… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: It happened that where the Prince's father lay buried, there grew a rose tree--a most beautiful rose tree, which blossomed only once in every five years, and even then bore only one flower, but that was a rose! Who acts: It, father, beautiful rose tree, that. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, father, beautiful rose tree, that), 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:pg1597:3:7 # text = It happened that where the Prince's father lay buried, there grew a rose tree--a most beautiful rose tree, which blossomed only once in every five years, and even then bore only one flower, but that was a rose! 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 that that SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 4 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 9 advmod _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 lay lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 10 buried bury VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 12 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 13 expl _ _ 13 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 rose rose NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 -- -- PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 19 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 20 advmod _ _ 20 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 21 rose rose NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 25 blossomed blossom VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 26 only only ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 25 advmod _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 31 det _ _ 30 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 31 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 even even ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 36 advmod _ _ 36 bore bear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 37 only only ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 39 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 41 but but CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 42 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 45 nsubj _ _ 43 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 rose rose NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | past | It | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **lie** | past | the Prince's father | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **bury** | participle | the Prince's father *not said here* | | | | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **grow** | past | | a rose tree a beautiful rose tree | | there | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme | | 5 | **blossom** | past | a beautiful rose tree | | | | year | once *property* | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **bear** | past | | one flower | | | then | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient | | 7 | **is a** | past | that | a rose | | | | | tree rules | 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 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/3/6/) - next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/3/8/) - ↑ back to [The Swineherd](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/3/)