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title: There stood noble palm-trees, oaks, and plantains, and beneath them… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There stood noble palm-trees, oaks, and plantains, and beneath them bloomed thyme and parsley. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 63

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There stood noble palm-trees, oaks, and plantains, and beneath them bloomed thyme and parsley.

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**What happens:** stand, bloom · **To what, where:** noble palm trees, thyme

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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: 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:pg27200:185:63
# text = There stood noble palm-trees, oaks, and plantains, and beneath them bloomed thyme and parsley.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	palm	palm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	oaks	oak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	plantains	plantain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
16	bloomed	bloom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
17	thyme	thyme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	parsley	parsley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past |  | noble palm trees and oaks |  | there |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus |
| 2 | **bloom** | participle |  | thyme and parsley |  |  |  | beneath trees *= tree* | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location thyme=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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