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title: The banana-trees bent their drooping branches over the boat, black s… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The banana-trees bent their drooping branches over the boat, black swans floated on the water, and singular animals and flowers appeared on the distant shore. Who acts: banana trees, singular animals. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, w
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 192

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The banana-trees bent their drooping branches over the boat, black swans floated on the water, and singular animals and flowers appeared on the distant shore.

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**Who acts:** banana trees, singular animals · **What happens:** bend, droop, float, appear · **To what, where:** drooping branches, boat, black swans, water, distant shore

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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 (banana trees, singular animals), 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:pg27200:140:192
# text = The banana-trees bent their drooping branches over the boat, black swans floated on the water, and singular animals and flowers appeared on the distant shore.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	banana	banana	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	bent	bend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	drooping	droop	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
8	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	over	over	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	swans	swan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	appos	_	_
15	floated	float	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	singular	singular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
25	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bend** | past | the banana trees | shepherds's drooping branches |  | the boat |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent branch=Theme over boat=Location |
| 2 | **droop** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **float** | participle |  | black swans *not said here* |  | the water |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on water=Trajectory |
| 4 | **appear** | past | singular animals and flowers |  |  | the distant shore |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shore=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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