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title: The painter who had drawn the rose-bush near the ruined house, had a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The painter who had drawn the rose-bush near the ruined house, had afterwards obtained permission to dig it up, and had given it to the architect, for finer roses had never been seen. Who acts: painter. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Famili
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 203

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The painter who had drawn the rose-bush near the ruined house, had afterwards obtained permission to dig it up, and had given it to the architect, for finer roses had never been seen.

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**Who acts:** painter · **What happens:** draw, ruin, obtain, dig up, give, not see · **To what, where:** rose bush, ruined house, painter, permission, architect, finer roses

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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 (painter), 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:pg27200:124:203
# text = The painter who had drawn the rose-bush near the ruined house, had afterwards obtained permission to dig it up, and had given it to the architect, for finer roses had never been seen.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	painter	painter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	near	near	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	ruined	ruin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	obtained	obtain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
18	permission	permission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	dig	dig	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	architect	architect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	finer	fine	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	34	amod	_	_
34	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
36	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
37	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past · perfect | the painter | the rose bush |  | the ruined house |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bush=Theme |
| 2 | **ruin** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **obtain** | past · perfect · passive |  | the painter |  |  |  | afterwards *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **dig up** | to-infinitive |  | permission |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **give** | past · perfect |  | permission | the architect |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to architect=Recipient |
| 6 | **not** **see** | past · perfect · passive |  | finer roses |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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