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title: And the rose tree went on blooming in innocence, while the snail lay… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And the rose tree went on blooming in innocence, while the snail lay idling in his house--the world was nothing to him. Who acts: rose tree, snail, idling. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree, sentence 59

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And the rose tree went on blooming in innocence, while the snail lay idling in his house--the world was nothing to him.

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**Who acts:** rose tree, snail, idling · **What happens:** go, bloom, lie, idle, be · **To what, where:** innocence, house, nothing, Snail

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rose tree, snail, idling), 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:pg27200:157:59
# text = And the rose tree went on blooming in innocence, while the snail lay idling in his house--the world was nothing to him.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	blooming	bloom	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	innocence	innocence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	snail	snail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	idling	idle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	csubj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	14	parataxis	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the rose tree |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bloom** | gerund | the rose tree *not said here* |  |  | innocence |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in innocence=Location |
| 3 | **lie** | past | the snail |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **idle** | gerund |  |  |  | Snail's house and the world |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | past | idling | nothing | Snail |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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