--- title: Before the sprig you gave me faded, I took a spray, and planted it i… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Before the sprig you gave me faded, I took a spray, and planted it in the earth; and now, as you see, it has become a large tree, and a bunch of the blossoms shall at last appear at a wedding festival, in the bouquet of your daughter." Who acts: you, sprig, I. 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C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, sprig, I), 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:pg27200:13:152 # text = Before the sprig you gave me faded, I took a spray, and planted it in the earth; and now, as you see, it has become a large tree, and a bunch of the blossoms shall at last appear at a wedding festival, in the bouquet of your daughter." 1 Before before SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 sprig sprig NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 6 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 iobj _ _ 7 faded fade VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 9 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 spray spray NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 planted plant VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 22 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 30 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 24 as as SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 become become VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 conj _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 bunch bunch NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 blossoms blossom NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nmod _ _ 41 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 42 at at SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 43 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 appear appear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 advcl _ _ 45 at at ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 46 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 wedding wedding NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 compound _ _ 48 festival festival NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 50 in in ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 bouquet bouquet NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ _ 53 of of ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 54 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 55 nmod:poss _ _ 55 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 56 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 57 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | past | you | the sprig *not said here* | me | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 2 | **fade** | past | the sprig | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **take** | past | I | a spray | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spray=Theme | | 4 | **plant** | past | I *not said here* | sprig | | the earth | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in earth=Destination | | 5 | **see** | present | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **become** | present · perfect | sprig | a large tree | | | now | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **appear** | present | I *not said here* | | | a wedding festival | | in the bouquet of your daughter | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at festival=Location | 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 151](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/13/151/) - next →: [sentence 153](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/13/153/) - ↑ back to [The Bottle Neck](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/13/)