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title: "I come from the wilds of the forests, where the thorny brambles for… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "I come from the wilds of the forests, where the thorny brambles form thick hedges between the trees; where the water-snake lies in the wet grass, and mankind seem to be unknown." Who acts: mother, thorny brambles, snake lies. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen,
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 66

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"I come from the wilds of the forests, where the thorny brambles form thick hedges between the trees; where the water-snake lies in the wet grass, and mankind seem to be unknown."

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**Who acts:** mother, thorny brambles, snake lies · **What happens:** come, form, seem, be · **To what, where:** wilds, thick hedges

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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 (mother, thorny brambles, snake lies), 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:pg27200:140:66
# text = "I come from the wilds of the forests, where the thorny brambles form thick hedges between the trees; where the water-snake lies in the wet grass, and mankind seem to be unknown."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wilds	wild	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	thorny	thorny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	brambles	bramble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	form	form	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	hedges	hedge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	between	between	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
22	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	35	advmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
24	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	lies	lie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	mankind	mankind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
35	seem	seem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
37	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	cop	_	_
38	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | present | the mother *= mother* |  |  | the wilds of the forests |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from wild=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **form** *in a quote* | present | the thorny brambles | thick hedges |  |  |  | between the trees | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hedge=Theme |
| 3 | **seem** *in a quote* | present | the snake lies in the wet grass and mankind |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the snake lies in the wet grass and mankind *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unknown *property* | tree rules |

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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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