--- title: The rose-bush covered the wall and hung out over the water, in which… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The rose-bush covered the wall and hung out over the water, in which everything was seen as if in a picture, except that it all stood on its head; but when the water was troubled everything got mixed up, and the picture was gone. Who acts: rose bush, bush, water, picture. A sentence of «Fairy Tales --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/124/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Neighbouring Families](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/124/) / 5 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 5 The rose-bush covered the wall and hung out over the water, in which everything was seen as if in a picture, except that it all stood on its head; but when the water was troubled everything got mixed up, and the picture was gone. **Who acts:** rose bush, bush, water, picture · **What happens:** cover, hang out, see, stand, be, mix up · **To what, where:** wall, water, everything, head · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (rose bush, bush, water, picture), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:124:5 # text = The rose-bush covered the wall and hung out over the water, in which everything was seen as if in a picture, except that it all stood on its head; but when the water was troubled everything got mixed up, and the picture was gone. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 rose rose NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 bush bush NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 covered cover VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 hung hang VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 10 out out ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 over over ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 obl _ _ 17 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ _ 20 as as ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 24 case _ _ 21 if if SCONJ IN _ 20 fixed _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 except except ADP IN _ 19 advmod _ _ 27 that that SCONJ IN _ 26 fixed _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 all all ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 ccomp _ _ 31 on on ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ; ; PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 35 but but CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 36 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 40 advmod _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 39 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 40 troubled troubled ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 43 nsubj:pass _ _ 42 got get AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 aux:pass _ _ 43 mixed mix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 44 up up ADP RP _ 43 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nsubj _ _ 49 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 50 cop _ _ 50 gone gone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cover** | past | the rose bush | the wall | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wall=Destination | | 2 | **hang out** | past | the rose bush *not said here* | | | the water | | out *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over water=Location | | 3 | **see** | past · passive | | everything | | | | as a picture | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as picture=Attribute | | 4 | **stand** | past | bush | | | bush's head | | all *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on head=Location | | 5 | **is** | past | the water | | | | | troubled *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **mix up** | past · passive | | everything | | | | | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 7 | **is** | past | the picture | | | | | gone *property* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/124/4/) - next →: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/124/6/) - ↑ back to [The Neighbouring Families](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/124/)