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title: In a north-west corner of the garden stood a great bush full of blos… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In a north-west corner of the garden stood a great bush full of blossom, like winter snow amid the summer's green; it was a juniper bush, the first that Jurgen had ever seen in bloom. Who acts: air, Jurgen. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sa
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 67

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In a north-west corner of the garden stood a great bush full of blossom, like winter snow amid the summer's green; it was a juniper bush, the first that Jurgen had ever seen in bloom.

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**Who acts:** air, Jurgen · **What happens:** stand, be, see · **To what, where:** great bush, west corner, juniper bush, bloom

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, 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 (air, Jurgen), 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:pg27200:159:67
# text = In a north-west corner of the garden stood a great bush full of blossom, like winter snow amid the summer's green; it was a juniper bush, the first that Jurgen had ever seen in bloom.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	west	west	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	blossom	blossom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	like	like	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
21	amid	amid	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	juniper	juniper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	31	conj	_	_
35	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
36	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
37	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
38	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	39	advmod	_	_
39	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	34	advcl	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	bloom	bloom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past |  | a great bush |  | a west corner of the garden |  | like winter snow | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bush=Theme in corner=Destination |
| 2 | **is a** | past | air | a juniper bush |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | air *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | past · perfect | Jurgen |  |  | bloom | ever |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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