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title: There were beautiful flowers, old trees, sloping fields, in which co… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There were beautiful flowers, old trees, sloping fields, in which cows and sheep were grazing, but not a man to be seen. Who acts: beautiful flowers, cows. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, with its dependency 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 25

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There were beautiful flowers, old trees, sloping fields, in which cows and sheep were grazing, but not a man to be seen.

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**Who acts:** beautiful flowers, cows · **What happens:** be, slope, graze, see · **To what, where:** fields, man

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful flowers, cows), 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:pg27200:172:25
# text = There were beautiful flowers, old trees, sloping fields, in which cows and sheep were grazing, but not a man to be seen.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	sloping	slope	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
10	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obl	_	_
14	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	grazing	graze	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | beautiful flowers and old trees |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **slope** | gerund | beautiful flowers and old trees *not said here* | fields |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location field=Theme |
| 3 | **graze** | past · progressive | cows and sheep |  |  |  |  |  | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive · passive |  | a man |  |  |  |  | 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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