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title: There was a little flower garden with painted wooden palings in fron… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There was a little flower garden with painted wooden palings in front of it; close by was a ditch, on its fresh green bank grew a little daisy; the sun shone as warmly and brightly upon it as on the magnificent garden flowers, and therefore it thrived well. Who acts: little flower garden, fresh gree
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 3

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There was a little flower garden with painted wooden palings in front of it; close by was a ditch, on its fresh green bank grew a little daisy; the sun shone as warmly and brightly upon it as on the magnificent garden flowers, and therefore it thrived well.

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**Who acts:** little flower garden, fresh green bank, sun · **What happens:** be, paint, grow, shine, thrive · **To what, where:** little daisy, magnificent garden flowers

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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 (little flower garden, fresh green bank, sun), 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:pg27200:20:3
# text = There was a little flower garden with painted wooden palings in front of it; close by was a ditch, on its fresh green bank grew a little daisy; the sun shone as warmly and brightly upon it as on the magnificent garden flowers, and therefore it thrived well.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
9	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	palings	paling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	ditch	ditch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
23	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
24	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	daisy	daisy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
35	as	as	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	warmly	warmly	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	brightly	brightly	ADV	RB	_	36	conj	_	_
39	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obl	_	_
41	as	as	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
42	on	on	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
44	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
45	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
49	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
50	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
51	thrived	thrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
52	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	51	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a little flower garden with painted wooden palings in front of front |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **paint** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | by a ditch | tree rules |
| 4 | **grow** | past | garden's fresh green bank | a little daisy |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location daisy=Theme |
| 5 | **shine** | past | the sun |  |  | the magnificent garden flowers |  | upon garden; warmly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon it=Location |
| 6 | **thrive** | past | sun |  |  |  |  | therefore, well *property* | 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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