--- title: Then he passed on under the shade of blooming chestnut-trees, throug… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Then he passed on under the shade of blooming chestnut-trees, through vineyards, and fields of Indian corn, till conscious that the mountains were as a wall between him and his early recollections; and he wished it to be so. Who acts: Knud, shade, mountains. 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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 (Knud, shade, mountains), 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:pg27200:203:96 # text = Then he passed on under the shade of blooming chestnut-trees, through vineyards, and fields of Indian corn, till conscious that the mountains were as a wall between him and his early recollections; and he wished it to be so. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 passed pass VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 on on ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 under under ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 shade shade NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 of of SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 9 blooming bloom VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 acl _ _ 10 chestnut chestnut NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 through through ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 vineyards vineyard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 fields field NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 Indian Indian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 corn corn NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 till till ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 conscious conscious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 25 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 mountains mountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 28 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 29 as as ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 advcl _ _ 32 between between ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nmod _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 35 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 36 early early ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 recollections recollection NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ; ; PUNCT : _ 41 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 wished wish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 42 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ _ 43 to to PART TO _ 45 mark _ _ 44 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 45 cop _ _ 45 so so ADV RB _ 41 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pass on** | past | Knud | fields of Indian corn | | the shade | then | | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **bloom** | gerund | the shade *not said here* | chestnut trees | | vineyards | | | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme | | 3 | **is** | past | the mountains | | | | | as a wall; between Knud | tree rules | | 4 | **wish** | past | Knud | tree | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | | 5 | **is** | to-infinitive | Knud *not said here* | | | | | so *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **recollect** | | Knud | | | | | | nom recollection «cognition transitive»: poss=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 95](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/95/) - next →: [sentence 97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/97/) - ↑ back to [Under the Willow-tree, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/)