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title: Cabbage and potatoes are the only plants cultivated in the gardens,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Cabbage and potatoes are the only plants cultivated in the gardens, but out of the hedge there grows a willow tree, and under this willow tree sat a little girl, and she sat with her eyes fixed upon the old oak tree between the two huts. Who acts: Cabbage, hedge. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans C
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirteenth Evening, sentence 4

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Cabbage and potatoes are the only plants cultivated in the gardens, but out of the hedge there grows a willow tree, and under this willow tree sat a little girl, and she sat with her eyes fixed upon the old oak tree between the two huts.

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**Who acts:** Cabbage, hedge · **What happens:** be, cultivate, grow, sit, fix · **To what, where:** only plants, gardens, willow tree, little girl, eyes

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Thirteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cabbage, hedge), 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:pg27200:104:4
# text = Cabbage and potatoes are the only plants cultivated in the gardens, but out of the hedge there grows a willow tree, and under this willow tree sat a little girl, and she sat with her eyes fixed upon the old oak tree between the two huts.
1	Cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	potatoes	potato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
8	cultivated	cultivate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	hedge	hedge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
19	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	willow	willow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	under	under	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
27	willow	willow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
29	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	_
40	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	acl	_	_
41	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
43	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
44	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
46	between	between	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	49	nummod	_	_
49	huts	hut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Cabbage and potatoes | the only plants |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cultivate** | participle |  | the only plants *not said here* |  | the gardens |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **grow** | present | the hedge | a willow tree |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme |
| 4 | **sit** | past |  | a little girl |  | this willow tree |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme under tree=Location |
| 5 | **sit** | past | hedge |  |  |  |  | with hedge's eyes | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **fix** | participle |  | hedge's eyes *not said here* |  |  |  | upon the old oak tree between the two huts | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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