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title: In the balcony stood flower-pots, on which were heads having asses'… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In the balcony stood flower-pots, on which were heads having asses' ears, but the flowers in them grew just as they pleased. Who acts: heads, flowers. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 33

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In the balcony stood flower-pots, on which were heads having asses' ears, but the flowers in them grew just as they pleased.

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**Who acts:** heads, flowers · **What happens:** stand, be, have, grow · **To what, where:** flower pots, balcony, heads, ears

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heads, flowers), 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:pg27200:131:33
# text = In the balcony stood flower-pots, on which were heads having asses' ears, but the flowers in them grew just as they pleased.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	balcony	balcony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	pots	pot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	12	det	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
13	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	asses	ass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nmod	_	_
23	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
24	just	just	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past |  | flower pots and which heads |  | the balcony |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pot=Theme in balcony=Destination |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | which heads |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | gerund | which heads *not said here* | asses's ears |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient |
| 4 | **grow** | past | the flowers in ears |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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