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title: Sweet-peas drooped over the boxes, and the rose-bushes shot forth lo… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Sweet-peas drooped over the boxes, and the rose-bushes shot forth long branches, which were trained round the windows and clustered together almost like a triumphal arch of leaves and flowers. Who acts: Sweet peas. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Little Bo
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 8

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Sweet-peas drooped over the boxes, and the rose-bushes shot forth long branches, which were trained round the windows and clustered together almost like a triumphal arch of leaves and flowers.

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**Who acts:** Sweet peas · **What happens:** droop, shoot, train, cluster · **To what, where:** boxes, rose bushes, long branches

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sweet peas), 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:pg27200:171:8
# text = Sweet-peas drooped over the boxes, and the rose-bushes shot forth long branches, which were trained round the windows and clustered together almost like a triumphal arch of leaves and flowers.
1	Sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	peas	pea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	drooped	droop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	boxes	box	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	shot	shoot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
15	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	trained	train	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	round	round	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	clustered	cluster	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
27	together	together	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
29	like	like	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	triumphal	triumphal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	arch	arch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **droop** | past | Sweet peas |  |  | the boxes |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over box=Location |
| 2 | **shoot** | participle · passive |  | the rose bushes |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination branch=Theme |
| 3 | **train** | past · passive |  | long branches |  |  |  | round the windows | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **cluster** | past |  |  |  |  |  | like a triumphal arch of leaves and flowers; together *property* | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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