--- title: He wished to put the branch back in the place it had been broken off… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: He wished to put the branch back in the place it had been broken off, but it is not possible to put everything in the right place; therefore he stuck the branch into the soft ground. Who acts: child, place, it. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/155/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [Everything in the Right Place](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/155/) / 13 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 13 He wished to put the branch back in the place it had been broken off, but it is not possible to put everything in the right place; therefore he stuck the branch into the soft ground. **Who acts:** child, place, it · **What happens:** wish, put back, break off, not be, put, stick · **To what, where:** branch, place, everything, right place, soft ground This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, place, it), 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:pg27200:155:13 # text = He wished to put the branch back in the place it had been broken off, but it is not possible to put everything in the right place; therefore he stuck the branch into the soft ground. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 wished wish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 branch branch NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 back back ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl:relcl _ _ 15 off off ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 possible possible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 advcl _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 csubj _ _ 24 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 23 obj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 therefore therefore ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 stuck stick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 branch branch NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 into into ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wish** | past | child | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **put back** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | child *not said here* | the branch | | the place | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent branch=Theme in place=Destination | | 3 | **break off** | past · perfect · passive | the place *not said here* | place | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **not** **is** | present | it | | | | | possible *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **put** | to-infinitive | | everything | | the right place | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent everything=Theme in place=Destination | | 6 | **stick** | past | child | the branch | | the soft ground | | therefore *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent branch=Theme into ground=Destination | 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 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/155/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/155/14/) - ↑ back to [Everything in the Right Place](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/155/)