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title: Now we are there, and roll past between barns and other farm buildin… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Now we are there, and roll past between barns and other farm buildings; and at the left of the gate we turn aside to the Old Castle Farm, where the lime trees stand in lines along the walls, and, sheltered from the wind and weather, grow so luxuriantly that their twigs and leaves almost conceal the 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 8

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Now we are there, and roll past between barns and other farm buildings; and at the left of the gate we turn aside to the Old Castle Farm, where the lime trees stand in lines along the walls, and, sheltered from the wind and weather, grow so luxuriantly that their twigs and leaves almost conceal the windows.

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**Who acts:** we, lime trees, twigs · **What happens:** be, roll, turn, stand, shelter, grow · **To what, where:** barns, left, lines, wind, windows

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, lime trees, twigs), 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:pg27200:12:8
# text = Now we are there, and roll past between barns and other farm buildings; and at the left of the gate we turn aside to the Old Castle Farm, where the lime trees stand in lines along the walls, and, sheltered from the wind and weather, grow so luxuriantly that their twigs and leaves almost conceal the windows.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	roll	roll	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	past	past	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	between	between	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	barns	barn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	buildings	building	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	left	left	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
25	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	Castle	Castle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	36	advmod	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	lime	lime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
36	stand	stand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	_
39	along	along	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
45	sheltered	shelter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	conj	_	_
46	from	from	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
52	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	conj	_	_
53	so	so	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
54	luxuriantly	luxuriantly	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
55	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	61	mark	_	_
56	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	57	nmod:poss	_	_
57	twigs	twig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	61	nsubj	_	_
58	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
59	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	conj	_	_
60	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	61	advmod	_	_
61	conceal	conceal	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	52	advcl	_	_
62	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
63	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	61	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | we |  |  |  | now | there *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **roll** | infinitive |  |  |  | barns and other farm buildings |  | past *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between barn=Trajectory |
| 3 | **turn** | present | we |  |  | the left of the gate |  | to the Old Castle Farm; aside *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme at left=Source to farm=Trajectory |
| 4 | **stand** | present | the lime trees |  |  | lines along the walls |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in line=Location |
| 5 | **shelter** | participle | the lime trees *not said here* |  |  | the wind and weather |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **grow** | present | the lime trees *not said here* |  |  |  |  | luxuriantly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **conceal** | present | trees's twigs and leaves | the windows |  |  |  | almost *property* | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=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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