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title: Immediately all the flowers in the flower-pots became large trees, w… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Immediately all the flowers in the flower-pots became large trees, with long branches reaching to the ceiling, and stretching along the walls, so that the whole room was like a greenhouse. Who acts: flowers, long branches, whole room. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. A
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 13

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Immediately all the flowers in the flower-pots became large trees, with long branches reaching to the ceiling, and stretching along the walls, so that the whole room was like a greenhouse.

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**Who acts:** flowers, long branches, whole room · **What happens:** become, reach, stretch, be · **To what, where:** large trees, walls

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flowers, long branches, whole room), 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:pg27200:134:13
# text = Immediately all the flowers in the flower-pots became large trees, with long branches reaching to the ceiling, and stretching along the walls, so that the whole room was like a greenhouse.
1	Immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	pots	pot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
10	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
17	reaching	reach	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	stretching	stretch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
24	along	along	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
34	like	like	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	greenhouse	greenhouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | all flowers in the flower pots | large trees |  |  |  | with long branches; immediately *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **reach** | gerund | long branches *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the ceiling | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **stretch** | gerund | all flowers in the flower pots *not said here* |  |  | the walls |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along wall=Location |
| 4 | **is** | past | the whole room |  |  |  |  | like a greenhouse | 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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