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title: The green grass, with the little red and white flowers, was the carp… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The green grass, with the little red and white flowers, was the carpet; the elder-bushes and the hedges of wild roses looked like garlands on the walls; and for a bath he could have the clear, fresh water of the brook; while the rushes bowed their heads to him, to wish him good morning and good even
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 39

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The green grass, with the little red and white flowers, was the carpet; the elder-bushes and the hedges of wild roses looked like garlands on the walls; and for a bath he could have the clear, fresh water of the brook; while the rushes bowed their heads to him, to wish him good morning and good evening.

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**Who acts:** green grass, elder bushes, haystack, rushes · **What happens:** be, look, have, bow, wish · **To what, where:** carpet, clear fresh water, heads, haystack

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (green grass, elder bushes, haystack, rushes), 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:pg27200:196:39
# text = The green grass, with the little red and white flowers, was the carpet; the elder-bushes and the hedges of wild roses looked like garlands on the walls; and for a bath he could have the clear, fresh water of the brook; while the rushes bowed their heads to him, to wish him good morning and good evening.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
8	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	carpet	carpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	hedges	hedge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
27	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
28	like	like	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	garlands	garland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
39	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	parataxis	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
42	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
44	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	brook	brook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
50	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	rushes	rush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	nsubj	_	_
53	bowed	bow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	conj	_	_
54	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	55	nmod:poss	_	_
55	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	obj	_	_
56	to	to	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
59	to	to	PART	TO	_	60	mark	_	_
60	wish	wish	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	40	parataxis	_	_
61	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	obj	_	_
62	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	63	amod	_	_
63	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obl:unmarked	_	_
64	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	66	cc	_	_
65	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	66	amod	_	_
66	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the green grass and the little red flowers | the carpet |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | past | the elder bushes and the hedges of wild roses | the carpet *not said here* |  |  |  | like garlands on the walls | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme carpet=Attribute |
| 3 | **have** | could | haystack | the clear fresh water of the brook |  |  |  | for a bath | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |
| 4 | **bow** | past | the rushes | rushes's heads | haystack |  |  |  | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent head=Topic to he=Recipient |
| 5 | **wish** | to-infinitive |  | haystack |  |  | morning |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=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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