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title: And they certainly grew, and produced flowers and green watery fruit… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And they certainly grew, and produced flowers and green watery fruit, but it all withered away. Who acts: trees, potato. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What One Can Invent, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What One Can Invent, sentence 41

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And they certainly grew, and produced flowers and green watery fruit, but it all withered away.

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**Who acts:** trees, potato · **What happens:** grow, produce, wither away · **To what, where:** flowers

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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 (trees, potato), 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:pg27200:206:41
# text = And they certainly grew, and produced flowers and green watery fruit, but it all withered away.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	produced	produce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	watery	watery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	all	all	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	withered	wither	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	away	away	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | trees *= tree* |  |  |  |  | certainly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **produce** | past | trees *= tree* *not said here* | flowers and green watery fruit |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Result |
| 3 | **wither away** | past | potato |  |  |  |  | all, away *property* | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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