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title: The apple-trees were in full blossom, and the fragrant elders bent t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The apple-trees were in full blossom, and the fragrant elders bent their long green branches down to the stream which wound round a smooth lawn. Who acts: apple trees, fragrant elders. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, with its dependency tr
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 156

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The apple-trees were in full blossom, and the fragrant elders bent their long green branches down to the stream which wound round a smooth lawn.

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**Who acts:** apple trees, fragrant elders · **What happens:** be, bend · **To what, where:** full blossom, long green branches

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling. 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, fragrant elders), 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:pg27200:201:156
# text = The apple-trees were in full blossom, and the fragrant elders bent their long green branches down to the stream which wound round a smooth lawn.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	blossom	blossom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	fragrant	fragrant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	elders	elder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	bent	bend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
16	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
19	down	down	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
23	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	24	det	_	_
24	wound	wound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	round	round	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	smooth	smooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	lawn	lawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the apple trees |  |  | full blossom |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bend** | past | the fragrant elders | elders's long green branches |  |  |  | to the stream *result*; round a smooth lawn | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent branch=Patient to stream=Result |

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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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