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title: In the garden close by grew many large and magnificent flowers, and,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In the garden close by grew many large and magnificent flowers, and, strange to say, the less fragrance they had the haughtier and prouder they were. Who acts: garden, less fragrance, flowers. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Daisy, with its dependency tr
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 10

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In the garden close by grew many large and magnificent flowers, and, strange to say, the less fragrance they had the haughtier and prouder they were.

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**Who acts:** garden, less fragrance, flowers · **What happens:** grow, say, have, be · **To what, where:** many large flowers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Daisy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (garden, less fragrance, flowers), 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:pg27200:20:10
# text = In the garden close by grew many large and magnificent flowers, and, strange to say, the less fragrance they had the haughtier and prouder they were.
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	6	nsubj	_	_
4	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	fixed	_	_
6	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
8	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	amod	_	_
21	fragrance	fragrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	haughtier	haughty	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	xcomp	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	prouder	proud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	conj	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | the garden | many large flowers |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location flower=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | the garden *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | past | the less fragrance |  |  |  |  | haughty *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **be** | past | flowers *= flower* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «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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