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title: There grew water-plants, some quite fresh, and others looking sickly… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There grew water-plants, some quite fresh, and others looking sickly, which had water-snakes twining round them, and black crabs clinging to their stems. Who acts: others, water snakes, black crabs. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother, with
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 62

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There grew water-plants, some quite fresh, and others looking sickly, which had water-snakes twining round them, and black crabs clinging to their stems.

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**Who acts:** others, water snakes, black crabs · **What happens:** grow, look, have, twine, cling, stem · **To what, where:** water plants, water snakes

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others, water snakes, black crabs), 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:pg27200:185:62
# text = There grew water-plants, some quite fresh, and others looking sickly, which had water-snakes twining round them, and black crabs clinging to their stems.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	nsubj	_	_
8	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
14	sickly	sickly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
18	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
21	twining	twine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
22	round	round	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	crabs	crab	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
28	clinging	cling	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	acl	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	stems	stem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past |  | water plants |  | there |  | black crabs *obl* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location plant=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | gerund | others |  |  |  |  | sickly *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **have** | past |  | water snakes |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Patient |
| 4 | **twine** | gerund | water snakes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | round others *= other* | vn coil-9.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round they=Destination |
| 5 | **cling** | gerund | black crabs *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to others's stems | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to stem=Co-Theme |
| 6 | **stem** |  | others *= other* |  |  |  |  |  | nom stem «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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