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title: In the garden all the apple-trees were in blossom. — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In the garden all the apple-trees were in blossom. Who acts: apple trees. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 1

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In the garden all the apple-trees were in blossom.

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**Who acts:** apple trees · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** blossom

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (apple trees), 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:pg27200:2:1
# text = In the garden all the apple-trees were in blossom.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	blossom	blossom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | all apple trees |  |  | blossom |  | in the garden | tree rules |

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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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