--- title: Here grew no elder; here was not even a flower-pot, with its little… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Here grew no elder; here was not even a flower-pot, with its little green plant; but just opposite the workshop stood a great willow-tree, which seemed to hold fast to the house for fear of being carried away by the water. Who acts: workshop, great willow tree, water. 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C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (workshop, great willow tree, water), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:203:70 # text = Here grew no elder; here was not even a flower-pot, with its little green plant; but just opposite the workshop stood a great willow-tree, which seemed to hold fast to the house for fear of being carried away by the water. 1 Here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 2 advmod _ _ 2 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 4 det _ _ 4 elder elder NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 6 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 13 advmod _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 9 even even ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 11 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 pot pot NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 16 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 17 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 just just ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 opposite opposite VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 workshop workshop NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 ccomp _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 28 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 29 willow willow NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 34 nsubj _ _ 34 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ _ 37 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 36 advmod _ _ 38 to to ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 41 for for ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 43 of of SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 44 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 45 aux:pass _ _ 45 carried carry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 42 acl _ _ 46 away away ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 47 by by ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | past | | no elder | | here | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location elder=Theme | | 2 | **not** **is a** | past | | a flower pot and elder's little green plant | | here | | | tree rules | | 3 | **opposite** | infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **stand** | past | the workshop | a great willow tree | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus | | 5 | **seem** | past | a great willow tree | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 6 | **hold** | to-infinitive | a great willow tree *not said here* | | | | | to the house; for fear; fast *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **carry away** | gerund · passive | the water | fear *not said here* | | | | away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/69/) - next →: [sentence 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/71/) - ↑ back to [Under the Willow-tree, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/)