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title: Palms and branches were painted on the walls, and in the middle of t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Palms and branches were painted on the walls, and in the middle of the court stood a great blooming rose-tree spreading out its fresh boughs, covered with roses, over a grave. Who acts: great blooming rose tree. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouri
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 184

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Palms and branches were painted on the walls, and in the middle of the court stood a great blooming rose-tree spreading out its fresh boughs, covered with roses, over a grave.

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**Who acts:** great blooming rose tree · **What happens:** paint, stand, bloom, spread out, cover · **To what, where:** Palms, walls, great blooming rose tree, middle, fresh boughs

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great blooming rose tree), 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:pg27200:124:184
# text = Palms and branches were painted on the walls, and in the middle of the court stood a great blooming rose-tree spreading out its fresh boughs, covered with roses, over a grave.
1	Palms	palm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
19	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
20	blooming	bloom	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	amod	_	_
21	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
24	spreading	spread	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	boughs	bough	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	over	over	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **paint** | past · passive |  | Palms and branches |  | the walls |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme on wall=Destination |
| 2 | **stand** | past |  | a great blooming rose tree |  | the middle of the court |  | over a grave | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tree=Theme in middle=Destination |
| 3 | **bloom** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **spread out** | gerund | a great blooming rose tree *not said here* | court's fresh boughs |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bough=Theme |
| 5 | **cover** | participle |  | court's fresh boughs *not said here* |  |  |  | with roses | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with rose=Theme |

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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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