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title: But the tree stood there fresher and greener than ever; the roses bl… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But the tree stood there fresher and greener than ever; the roses bloomed in the sunshine on Thorwaldsen's grave and became associated with his immortal name. Who acts: tree, Thorwaldsen. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, with its de
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 215

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But the tree stood there fresher and greener than ever; the roses bloomed in the sunshine on Thorwaldsen's grave and became associated with his immortal name.

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**Who acts:** tree, Thorwaldsen · **What happens:** stand, bloom, become, associate, name · **To what, where:** roses, sunshine

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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 (tree, Thorwaldsen), 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:pg27200:124:215
# text = But the tree stood there fresher and greener than ever; the roses bloomed in the sunshine on Thorwaldsen's grave and became associated with his immortal name.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
6	fresher	fresh	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	greener	green	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	conj	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	parataxis	_	_
14	bloomed	bloom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	Thorwaldsen	Thorwaldsen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
24	associated	associate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	xcomp	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	immortal	immortal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | the tree |  |  | there |  | fresh *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bloom** | participle |  | the roses *not said here* |  | the sunshine |  | on Thorwaldsen's grave | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sunshine=Location |
| 3 | **become** | past | the tree *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **associate** | participle | the tree *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Thorwaldsen's immortal name | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with name=Co-Patient |
| 5 | **name** |  | Thorwaldsen |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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