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title: In one of the gardens grew an elder-tree, and in the other an old wi… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In one of the gardens grew an elder-tree, and in the other an old willow, under which the children were very fond of playing. Who acts: gardens, children. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 6

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In one of the gardens grew an elder-tree, and in the other an old willow, under which the children were very fond of playing.

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**Who acts:** gardens, children · **What happens:** grow, be, play · **To what, where:** elder tree, other old willow

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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 (gardens, 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:pg27200:202:6
# text = In one of the gardens grew an elder-tree, and in the other an old willow, under which the children were very fond of playing.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	elder	elder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	willow	willow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	under	under	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	very	very	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
27	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
28	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	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 gardens | a elder tree |  | the other old willow |  | in one | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the children |  |  | the other old willow |  | fond *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **play** | gerund | the children *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «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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