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title: In the centre of the hall stood a tree, with drooping branches, from… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In the centre of the hall stood a tree, with drooping branches, from which hung golden apples, both great and small, looking like oranges amid the green leaves. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 185

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In the centre of the hall stood a tree, with drooping branches, from which hung golden apples, both great and small, looking like oranges amid the green leaves.

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**What happens:** stand, droop, hang, look · **To what, where:** tree, centre, golden apples

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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: 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:pg27200:140:185
# text = In the centre of the hall stood a tree, with drooping branches, from which hung golden apples, both great and small, looking like oranges amid the green leaves.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	drooping	droop	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	amod	_	_
13	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
18	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc:preconj	_	_
22	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
27	like	like	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	oranges	orange	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
29	amid	amid	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past |  | a tree |  | the centre of the hall |  | with drooping branches | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tree=Theme in centre=Destination |
| 2 | **droop** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hang** | past |  | golden apples |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Patient |
| 4 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | like oranges; amid the green leaves | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent amid leaf=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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