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title: The white thorn and the dog rose now blossom above the place where t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The white thorn and the dog rose now blossom above the place where the church lies buried, but the spire, like an enormous monument over a grave, can be seen for miles round. Who acts: white thorn, church. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the San
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 6, sentence 28

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The white thorn and the dog rose now blossom above the place where the church lies buried, but the spire, like an enormous monument over a grave, can be seen for miles round.

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**Who acts:** white thorn, church · **What happens:** rise, blossom, lie, bury, see · **To what, where:** place, spire

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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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (white thorn, church), 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:pg27200:163:28
# text = The white thorn and the dog rose now blossom above the place where the church lies buried, but the spire, like an enormous monument over a grave, can be seen for miles round.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	thorn	thorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
9	blossom	blossom	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
10	above	above	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	16	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
17	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	spire	spire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	like	like	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	enormous	enormous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	monument	monument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
27	over	over	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
31	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
36	round	round	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | the white thorn and the dog |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **blossom** | present | the white thorn and the dog *not said here* | the place |  |  | now |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location place=Theme |
| 3 | **lie** | present | the church |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **bury** | participle | the church *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **see** | can · passive |  | the spire |  |  |  | for miles; round *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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