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title: More grand and venerable to him seemed the old oaks around the proud… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: More grand and venerable to him seemed the old oaks around the proud baronial castle, where the creeping plants hung over the stony summits of the rocks; sweeter was the perfume there of the apple-blossom than in all the land of Denmark. Who acts: grand, creeping plants. A sentence of «Fairy Tales o
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 58

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More grand and venerable to him seemed the old oaks around the proud baronial castle, where the creeping plants hung over the stony summits of the rocks; sweeter was the perfume there of the apple-blossom than in all the land of Denmark.

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**Who acts:** grand, creeping plants · **What happens:** seem, creep, hang, be · **To what, where:** old oaks, proud baronial castle, stony summits, sweeter perfume

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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 (grand, creeping plants), 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:pg27200:128:58
# text = More grand and venerable to him seemed the old oaks around the proud baronial castle, where the creeping plants hung over the stony summits of the rocks; sweeter was the perfume there of the apple-blossom than in all the land of Denmark.
1	More	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
2	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	venerable	venerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	oaks	oak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	around	around	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	baronial	baronial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	creeping	creep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	amod	_	_
20	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
22	over	over	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	stony	stony	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	summits	summit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	sweeter	sweet	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	33	amod	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	perfume	perfume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
34	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	advmod	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
37	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	blossom	blossom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
40	than	than	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	44	det:predet	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	Denmark	Denmark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | grand | the old oaks |  | the proud baronial castle |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme oak=Attribute |
| 2 | **creep** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hang** | past | the creeping plants |  |  | the stony summits of the rocks |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over summit=Location |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | the sweeter perfume |  | there |  | of the apple blossom than all land of Denmark | tree rules |

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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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