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title: They stuck up the two gingerbread figures in the sunshine among the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They stuck up the two gingerbread figures in the sunshine among the green leaves, and then told the story, and all about the silent love which came to nothing, to a group of children. Who acts: children, silent love. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 37

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They stuck up the two gingerbread figures in the sunshine among the green leaves, and then told the story, and all about the silent love which came to nothing, to a group of children.

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**Who acts:** children, silent love · **What happens:** stick up, tell, come · **To what, where:** two gingerbread figures, sunshine, story, nothing · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, silent love), 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:pg27200:202:37
# text = They stuck up the two gingerbread figures in the sunshine among the green leaves, and then told the story, and all about the silent love which came to nothing, to a group of children.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stuck	stick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	gingerbread	gingerbread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	figures	figure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
11	among	among	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
18	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	all	all	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
24	about	about	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stick up** | past | children *= child* | the two gingerbread figures |  | the sunshine |  | among the green leaves | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent figure=Theme in sunshine=Destination |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | children *= child* *not said here* | the story |  |  | then | about the silent love | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent story=Recipient about love=Topic |
| 3 | **come** | past | the silent love |  |  | nothing |  | to a group of children | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to nothing=Initial\_Location to group=Destination |

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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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