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title: The climbing plants hung in garlands of green and gold, like the ill… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The climbing plants hung in garlands of green and gold, like the illuminations on the margins of old missals or twined among the initial letters. Who acts: climbing plants. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, with its dependency tree and 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 168

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The climbing plants hung in garlands of green and gold, like the illuminations on the margins of old missals or twined among the initial letters.

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**Who acts:** climbing plants · **What happens:** hang, twine · **To what, where:** garlands

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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 (climbing plants), 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:pg27200:140:168
# text = The climbing plants hung in garlands of green and gold, like the illuminations on the margins of old missals or twined among the initial letters.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	climbing	climbing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	garlands	garland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	green	green	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	illuminations	illumination	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	margins	margin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	missals	missal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	twined	twine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
23	among	among	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	initial	initial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | participle | the climbing plants |  |  | garlands of green and gold |  | like the illuminations on the margins of old missals | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in garland=Location |
| 2 | **twine** | participle | the climbing plants *not said here* |  |  |  |  | among the initial letters | vn coil-9.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=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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