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title: Then we got into a garden in which grew red cabbage; oh, how nice it… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then we got into a garden in which grew red cabbage; oh, how nice it was, I cannot think of anything more delicious." Who acts: we, garden, cabbage, I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 146

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Then we got into a garden in which grew red cabbage; oh, how nice it was, I cannot think of anything more delicious."

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**Who acts:** we, garden, cabbage, I · **What happens:** get, grow, be, not think · **To what, where:** garden, red cabbage

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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 (we, garden, cabbage, I), 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:pg27200:134:146
# text = Then we got into a garden in which grew red cabbage; oh, how nice it was, I cannot think of anything more delicious."
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
16	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	23	obl	_	_
26	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	27	advmod	_	_
27	delicious	delicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | we |  |  | a garden | then |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into garden=Destination |
| 2 | **grow** | past | a garden | red cabbage |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cabbage=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | cabbage |  |  |  |  | nice *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | can | I |  |  |  |  | of anything | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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