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title: Outside the garden, by the palings at the road-side, stood a great m… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Outside the garden, by the palings at the road-side, stood a great mighty Thistle, which spread out in many directions from the root, so that it might have been called a thistle bush. Who acts: great mighty Thistle. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thistl
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 2

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Outside the garden, by the palings at the road-side, stood a great mighty Thistle, which spread out in many directions from the root, so that it might have been called a thistle bush.

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**Who acts:** great mighty Thistle · **What happens:** stand, spread out, call · **To what, where:** garden, many directions, Thistle · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great mighty Thistle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:12822`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:189:2
# text = Outside the garden, by the palings at the road-side, stood a great mighty Thistle, which spread out in many directions from the root, so that it might have been called a thistle bush.
1	Outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	palings	paling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
12	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
14	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Thistle	thistle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	directions	direction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
34	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	aux	_	_
35	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	thistle	thistle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	xcomp	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | a great mighty Thistle |  |  | the garden |  | by the palings at the road side | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent outside garden=Location |
| 2 | **spread out** | past | a great mighty Thistle |  |  | many directions |  | from the root | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in direction=Location |
| 3 | **call** | might · perfect · passive |  | Thistle |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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