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title: But she propped up with the little stick the green plant which had g… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But she propped up with the little stick the green plant which had given her child such pleasant hopes of life, so that it might not be broken by the winds; she tied the piece of string to the window-sill and to the upper part of the frame, so that the pea-tendrils might twine round it when it shot 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pea Blossom, sentence 39

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But she propped up with the little stick the green plant which had given her child such pleasant hopes of life, so that it might not be broken by the winds; she tied the piece of string to the window-sill and to the upper part of the frame, so that the pea-tendrils might twine round it when it shot up.

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**Who acts:** mother, green plant, winds, pea tendrils, plant, life · **What happens:** prop up, give, not break, tie, twine, shoot up · **To what, where:** child, plant, piece

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pea Blossom. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, green plant, winds, pea tendrils), 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:pg27200:141:39
# text = But she propped up with the little stick the green plant which had given her child such pleasant hopes of life, so that it might not be broken by the winds; she tied the piece of string to the window-sill and to the upper part of the frame, so that the pea-tendrils might twine round it when it shot up.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	propped	prop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	hopes	hope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	29	mark	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	fixed	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	parataxis	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
34	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	tied	tie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	string	string	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
42	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	sill	sill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
46	to	to	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	conj	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	frame	frame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
54	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	61	mark	_	_
55	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	61	mark	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
57	pea	pea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	57	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	tendrils	tendril	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	61	nsubj	_	_
60	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	61	aux	_	_
61	twine	twine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	conj	_	_
62	round	round	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
63	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	61	obl	_	_
64	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	66	advmod	_	_
65	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	66	nsubj	_	_
66	shot	shoot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	61	advcl	_	_
67	up	up	ADP	RP	_	66	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prop up** | past | mother |  |  |  |  | with the little stick | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **give** | past · perfect | the green plant | mother's child and such pleasant hopes of life |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **break** | might · passive | the winds | plant |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Patient |
| 4 | **tie** | past | mother | the piece of string |  |  |  | to the window sill and the upper part of the frame | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent piece=Patient to sill=Co-Patient |
| 5 | **twine** | might | the pea tendrils |  |  | plant |  |  | vn coil-9.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round it=Destination |
| 6 | **shoot up** | past | plant |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **hope** |  | life |  |  |  |  |  | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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