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title: Box trees and yew trees stood there trimmed into the form of stars a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Box trees and yew trees stood there trimmed into the form of stars and pyramids, and water sprang from fountains in large grottoes lined with shells. Who acts: Box trees, water. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, with its dependency tr
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 54

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Box trees and yew trees stood there trimmed into the form of stars and pyramids, and water sprang from fountains in large grottoes lined with shells.

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**Who acts:** Box trees, water · **What happens:** stand, trim, spring, line, form · **To what, where:** form, fountains, large grottoes, stars

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Box trees, water), 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:pg27200:147:54
# text = Box trees and yew trees stood there trimmed into the form of stars and pyramids, and water sprang from fountains in large grottoes lined with shells.
1	Box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	yew	yew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
8	trimmed	trim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	xcomp	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	pyramids	pyramid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	fountains	fountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	grottoes	grotto	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	lined	line	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	shells	shell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | Box trees and yew trees |  |  | there |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **trim** | participle | Box trees and yew trees *not said here* |  |  | the form of stars and pyramids |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **spring** | past | water |  |  | fountains in large grottoes |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from fountain=Trajectory |
| 4 | **line** | participle |  | large grottoes *not said here* |  |  |  | with shells | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with shell=Theme |
| 5 | **form** |  |  | stars and pyramids |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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