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title: Here figs and pomegranates grew wild, and the vines were covered wit… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Here figs and pomegranates grew wild, and the vines were covered with clusters of blue and purple grapes. Who acts: figs. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 146

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Here figs and pomegranates grew wild, and the vines were covered with clusters of blue and purple grapes.

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**Who acts:** figs · **What happens:** grow, cover · **To what, where:** vines

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (figs), 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:pg27200:140:146
# text = Here figs and pomegranates grew wild, and the vines were covered with clusters of blue and purple grapes.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	figs	fig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	pomegranates	pomegranate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	vines	vine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	clusters	cluster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	purple	purple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	grapes	grape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | figs and pomegranates |  |  | here |  | wild *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cover** | past · passive |  | the vines |  |  |  | with clusters of blue grapes | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with cluster=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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