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title: But in truth, Isolda had not forgotten him, her faithful friend; and… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But in truth, Isolda had not forgotten him, her faithful friend; and when both were laid in their graves, one, on each side of the church, the linden-trees that grew by each grave spread over the roof, and, bending towards each other, mingled their blossoms together. Who acts: Isolda, linden trees. 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 106

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But in truth, Isolda had not forgotten him, her faithful friend; and when both were laid in their graves, one, on each side of the church, the linden-trees that grew by each grave spread over the roof, and, bending towards each other, mingled their blossoms together.

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**Who acts:** Isolda, linden trees · **What happens:** not forget, lay, grow, spread, bend, mingle · **To what, where:** Anthony, truth, both, graves, grave, roof

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Isolda, linden trees), 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:pg27200:128:106
# text = But in truth, Isolda had not forgotten him, her faithful friend; and when both were laid in their graves, one, on each side of the church, the linden-trees that grew by each grave spread over the roof, and, bending towards each other, mingled their blossoms together.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Isolda	Isolda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	19	mark	_	_
17	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	graves	grave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
28	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
34	linden	linden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	_
37	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj	_	_
38	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	acl:relcl	_	_
39	by	by	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	41	det	_	_
41	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
42	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	acl	_	_
43	over	over	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
49	bending	bend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	38	advcl	_	_
50	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	49	obl	_	_
52	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
54	mingled	mingle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	conj	_	_
55	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
56	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	obj	_	_
57	together	together	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **forget** | past · perfect | Isolda | Anthony |  | truth |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lay** | past · passive |  | both |  | Tristan's graves |  | on each side of the church and the linden trees | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in grave=Destination |
| 3 | **grow** | past | the linden trees |  |  |  |  | by each grave | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by grave=Location |
| 4 | **spread** | participle |  | each grave *not said here* |  | the roof |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over roof=Location |
| 5 | **bend** | gerund | the linden trees *not said here* |  |  | each |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards each=Location |
| 6 | **mingle** | past | the linden trees *not said here* | Tristan's blossoms |  |  |  | together *property* | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blossom=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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