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title: She came to the ditch; and forget-me-nots were growing there, and me… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She came to the ditch; and forget-me-nots were growing there, and meadow-sweet; and a very little way off was a hedge of whitethorn, and elder bushes grew there, too, and bindweed with white flowers. Who acts: dust, nots, elder bushes. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 41

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She came to the ditch; and forget-me-nots were growing there, and meadow-sweet; and a very little way off was a hedge of whitethorn, and elder bushes grew there, too, and bindweed with white flowers.

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**Who acts:** dust, nots, elder bushes · **What happens:** come, forget, grow, be · **To what, where:** ditch, me, hedge, bindweed

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dust, nots, elder bushes), 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:pg27200:194:41
# text = She came to the ditch; and forget-me-nots were growing there, and meadow-sweet; and a very little way off was a hedge of whitethorn, and elder bushes grew there, too, and bindweed with white flowers.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ditch	ditch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	nots	not	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	parataxis	_	_
15	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	very	very	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	_
27	off	off	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	hedge	hedge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	whitethorn	whitethorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
37	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
38	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	too	too	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	bindweed	bindweed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
44	with	with	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | dust |  |  | the ditch |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to ditch=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **forget** | infinitive | dust *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **grow** | past · progressive | nots |  |  | there |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | a hedge |  |  |  | of whitethorn; off *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **grow** | past | elder bushes | bindweed with white flowers |  | there |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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