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title: Especially above, where the large boughs parted, there was quite a h… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Especially above, where the large boughs parted, there was quite a hanging garden, in which wild raspberries and hart's-tongue ferns throve, and even a little mistletoe had taken root, and grew gracefully in the old willow branches, which were reflected in the dark water beneath when the wind blew t
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 48

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Especially above, where the large boughs parted, there was quite a hanging garden, in which wild raspberries and hart's-tongue ferns throve, and even a little mistletoe had taken root, and grew gracefully in the old willow branches, which were reflected in the dark water beneath when the wind blew the chickweed into the corner of the pool.

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**Who acts:** hanging garden, wind · **What happens:** part, hang, be, throve, take, grow · **To what, where:** large boughs, hanging garden, little mistletoe, old willow branches, dark water, chickweed

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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 (hanging garden, wind), 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:pg27200:155:48
# text = Especially above, where the large boughs parted, there was quite a hanging garden, in which wild raspberries and hart's-tongue ferns throve, and even a little mistletoe had taken root, and grew gracefully in the old willow branches, which were reflected in the dark water beneath when the wind blew the chickweed into the corner of the pool.
1	Especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	above	above	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	8	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	boughs	bough	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	parted	part	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
12	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	amod	_	_
15	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
19	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	raspberries	raspberry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	hart's	hart'	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	ferns	fern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	compound	_	_
26	throve	throve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
29	even	even	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	mistletoe	mistletoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	parataxis	_	_
35	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
39	gracefully	gracefully	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
42	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
43	willow	willow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	48	nsubj:pass	_	_
47	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	aux:pass	_	_
48	reflected	reflect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	acl:relcl	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
53	beneath	beneath	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
54	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	57	advmod	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nsubj	_	_
57	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	advcl	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	chickweed	chickweed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obj	_	_
60	into	into	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	_
63	of	of	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
64	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	65	det	_	_
65	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **part** | participle · passive |  | the large boughs |  |  |  | above *property* | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **hang** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | a hanging garden and ferns throve |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **throve** |  | a hanging garden and ferns throve |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **take** | past · perfect · passive |  | a little mistletoe |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme root=Destination |
| 6 | **grow** | past |  |  |  | the old willow branches |  | gracefully *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in branch=Location |
| 7 | **reflect** | past · passive |  | the old willow branches |  | the dark water |  | beneath *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **blow** | past | the wind | the chickweed |  | the corner of the pool |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent chickweed=Material into corner=Product |

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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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