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title: Corn grows in the surrounding fields, not only rye and barley, but o… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Corn grows in the surrounding fields, not only rye and barley, but oats,-pretty oats that, when ripe, look like a number of little golden canary-birds sitting on a bough. Who acts: Corn, oats, little golden canary birds. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The B
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Buckwheat, sentence 6

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Corn grows in the surrounding fields, not only rye and barley, but oats,-pretty oats that, when ripe, look like a number of little golden canary-birds sitting on a bough.

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**Who acts:** Corn, oats, little golden canary birds · **What happens:** grow, look, sit · **To what, where:** surrounding fields, bough

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Buckwheat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Corn, oats, little golden canary birds), 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:pg27200:14:6
# text = Corn grows in the surrounding fields, not only rye and barley, but oats,-pretty oats that, when ripe, look like a number of little golden canary-birds sitting on a bough.
1	Corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	surrounding	surrounding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	rye	rye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	barley	barley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
15	oats	oat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	oats	oat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
23	ripe	ripe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
25	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
26	like	like	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
30	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
31	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
32	canary	canary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
35	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	acl	_	_
36	on	on	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	bough	bough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present | Corn |  |  | the surrounding fields |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in field=Location |
| 2 | **look** | infinitive | oats and pretty oats |  |  |  |  | like a number of little golden canary birds | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **sit** | gerund | little golden canary birds *not said here* |  |  | a bough |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bough=Location |

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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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