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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 36

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The next day they went into the churchyard, and took the two cake figures with them, and sat down under the church wall, which was covered with luxuriant ivy in summer and winter, and looked as if hung with rich tapestry.

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**Who acts:** children · **What happens:** go, take, sit down, cover, look, hang · **To what, where:** churchyard, two cake figures, church wall

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, 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 (children), 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:pg27200:202:36
# text = The next day they went into the churchyard, and took the two cake figures with them, and sat down under the church wall, which was covered with luxuriant ivy in summer and winter, and looked as if hung with rich tapestry.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	churchyard	churchyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
14	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	figures	figure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
21	down	down	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	under	under	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl:relcl	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	luxuriant	luxuriant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	ivy	ivy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
40	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
41	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
42	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	xcomp	_	_
43	with	with	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	tapestry	tapestry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | children *= child* |  |  | the churchyard | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into churchyard=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **take** | past |  | the two cake figures |  |  |  | with children *= child* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent figure=Theme |
| 3 | **sit down** | past |  |  |  | the church wall |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under wall=Location |
| 4 | **cover** | past · passive |  | the church wall |  |  |  | with luxuriant ivy in summer and winter | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with ivy=Theme |
| 5 | **look** | past | children *= child* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **hang** *a condition, not said to happen* | participle | children *= child* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with rich tapestry | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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