--- title: They turned their steps to the church, and Knud and Joanna followed… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: They turned their steps to the church, and Knud and Joanna followed them, also walking hand-in-hand; there stood the church, as of old, with its red walls, on which the green ivy grew. Who acts: tree, Knud, green ivy. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/204/31/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [Under the Willow-tree, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/204/) / 31 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3, sentence 31 They turned their steps to the church, and Knud and Joanna followed them, also walking hand-in-hand; there stood the church, as of old, with its red walls, on which the green ivy grew. **Who acts:** tree, Knud, green ivy · **What happens:** turn, follow, walk, stand, grow, step · **To what, where:** steps, church, tree, hand hand This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tree, Knud, green ivy), 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:pg27200:204:31 # text = They turned their steps to the church, and Knud and Joanna followed them, also walking hand-in-hand; there stood the church, as of old, with its red walls, on which the green ivy grew. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 steps step NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 Knud Knud PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 Joanna Joanna PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 13 followed follow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 also also ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 walking walk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 18 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ SpaceAfter=No 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 24 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 25 advmod _ _ 25 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 as as ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 31 case _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 29 fixed _ _ 31 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 35 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 walls wall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 38 on on ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 43 obl _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 ivy ivy NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 43 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | past | tree | tree's steps | | the church | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent step=Theme to church=Trajectory | | 2 | **follow** | past | Knud and Joanna | tree | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 3 | **walk** | gerund | Knud and Joanna *not said here* | hand hand | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hand=Trajectory | | 4 | **stand** | past | tree *not said here* | the church | | there | | with hand's red walls | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer church=Stimulus | | 5 | **grow** | past | the green ivy | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on which=Location | | 6 | **step** | | tree | | | | | | nom step «act 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 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/204/30/) - next →: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/204/32/) - ↑ back to [Under the Willow-tree, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/204/)