--- title: In the rooms heavy black cobwebs hung down, covered with dust; in th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: In the rooms heavy black cobwebs hung down, covered with dust; in the garden everything grew just as it would; hops and climbing plants ran like a net between the trees and bushes, and the hemlock and nettle grew larger and stronger. Who acts: everything, climbing, hemlock. 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C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everything, climbing, hemlock), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:149:77 # text = In the rooms heavy black cobwebs hung down, covered with dust; in the garden everything grew just as it would; hops and climbing plants ran like a net between the trees and bushes, and the hemlock and nettle grew larger and stronger. 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 rooms room NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 4 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 cobwebs cobweb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 7 hung hang VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 down down ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 dust dust NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 18 nsubj _ _ 18 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 19 just just ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 20 as as SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 24 hops hop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 climbing climb VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 csubj _ _ 27 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 28 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 29 like like ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 net net NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 between between ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nmod _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 bushes bush NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 hemlock hemlock NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 nettle nettle NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 conj _ _ 43 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 44 larger large ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 43 xcomp _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 stronger strong ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 44 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hang down** | participle · passive | | heavy black cobwebs | | the rooms | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in room=Destination | | 2 | **cover** | participle | | | | | | with dust | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with dust=Theme | | 3 | **grow** | past | everything | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **climb** | gerund | | plants | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location plant=Theme | | 5 | **run** | past | climbing | | | | | like a net between the trees and bushes | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **grow** | past | the hemlock and nettle | | | | | large *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/149/76/) - next →: [sentence 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/149/78/) - ↑ back to [Poultry Meg's Family](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/149/)