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title: There was also a little potato-field, very useful, and an earth bank… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There was also a little potato-field, very useful, and an earth bank, with sloe bushes upon it, which had done blossoming, and now bore fruit, sloes, that draw one's mouth together if one tastes them before the frost has touched them. Who acts: little potato field, sloe bushes, that, one. A sentence
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What One Can Invent, sentence 17

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There was also a little potato-field, very useful, and an earth bank, with sloe bushes upon it, which had done blossoming, and now bore fruit, sloes, that draw one's mouth together if one tastes them before the frost has touched them.

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**Who acts:** little potato field, sloe bushes, that, one · **What happens:** be, do, blossom, bear, draw, taste · **To what, where:** fruit, mouth, frost

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What One Can Invent. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little potato field, sloe bushes, that, one), 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:pg27200:206:17
# text = There was also a little potato-field, very useful, and an earth bank, with sloe bushes upon it, which had done blossoming, and now bore fruit, sloes, that draw one's mouth together if one tastes them before the frost has touched them.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	potato	potato	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	useful	useful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	sloe	sloe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	_
21	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	acl	_	_
27	blossoming	blossom	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	_
31	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
32	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	sloes	sloe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
37	draw	draw	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	parataxis	_	_
38	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	's	's	PART	POS	_	38	case	_	_
40	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
41	together	together	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
42	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
43	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	tastes	taste	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	advcl	_	_
45	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	obj	_	_
46	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	frost	frost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj:pass	_	_
49	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
50	touched	touch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	advcl	_	_
51	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a little potato field and a earth bank |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | past · perfect | sloe bushes upon bank |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **blossom** | gerund | sloe bushes upon bank *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **bear** | past |  | fruit and sloes |  |  | now |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient |
| 5 | **draw** | present | that | one's mouth |  |  |  | together *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Theme |
| 6 | **taste** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | one | fruit |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme they=Attribute |
| 7 | **touch** | present · perfect · passive |  | the frost |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer they=Result |

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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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