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title: In one pot pinks were growing all over the sides, at least the green… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In one pot pinks were growing all over the sides, at least the green leaves were shooting forth stalk and stem, and saying as plainly as they could speak, "The air has fanned me, the sun has kissed me, and I am promised a little flower for next Sunday--really for next Sunday." Who acts: one, green l
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 34

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In one pot pinks were growing all over the sides, at least the green leaves were shooting forth stalk and stem, and saying as plainly as they could speak, "The air has fanned me, the sun has kissed me, and I am promised a little flower for next Sunday--really for next Sunday."

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**Who acts:** one, green leaves, leaves · **What happens:** grow, shoot, stalk, say, speak, fan · **To what, where:** sides, least, air, sun · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (one, green leaves, leaves), 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:pg27200:131:34
# text = In one pot pinks were growing all over the sides, at least the green leaves were shooting forth stalk and stem, and saying as plainly as they could speak, "The air has fanned me, the sun has kissed me, and I am promised a little flower for next Sunday--really for next Sunday."
1	In	in	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nsubj	_	_
3	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	pinks	pink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	all	all	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	over	over	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	obl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	shooting	shoot	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
19	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	stalk	stalk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	stem	stem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
26	as	as	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	plainly	plainly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	fanned	fan	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	xcomp	_	_
38	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj:pass	_	_
42	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	parataxis	_	_
44	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	43	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
47	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
48	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	49	cop	_	_
49	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	_
53	for	for	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	really	really	ADV	RB	_	60	advmod	_	_
58	for	for	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
60	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past · progressive | one |  |  | the sides | sunday |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over side=Location |
| 2 | **shoot** | past · progressive | the green leaves |  |  | least |  | forth *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **stalk** | infinitive | the green leaves *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | plainly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | could | leaves *= leaf* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **fan** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | the air |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **kiss** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | the sun |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **is** *in a quote* | present | leaves *= leaf* |  |  |  | sunday | promise *property* | 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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