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title: That apple-tree, planted in love, now appears before me in heavenly… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: That apple-tree, planted in love, now appears before me in heavenly beauty." Who acts: apple tree. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 207

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That apple-tree, planted in love, now appears before me in heavenly beauty."

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**Who acts:** apple tree · **What happens:** plant, appear · **To what, where:** apple tree, love, heavenly beauty

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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 (apple 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:pg27200:128:207
# text = That apple-tree, planted in love, now appears before me in heavenly beauty."
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
2	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	planted	plant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
11	appears	appear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	before	before	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	heavenly	heavenly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plant** | participle |  | that apple tree *not said here* |  | love |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in love=Destination |
| 2 | **appear** | present | that apple tree |  |  | heavenly beauty | before me; now |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before i=Location |

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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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