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title: Bushes grew thickly round the lake, and at one spot an opening had b… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Bushes grew thickly round the lake, and at one spot an opening had been made by a deer, through which Eliza went down to the water. Who acts: Bushes, deer, Eliza. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 51

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Bushes grew thickly round the lake, and at one spot an opening had been made by a deer, through which Eliza went down to the water.

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**Who acts:** Bushes, deer, Eliza · **What happens:** grow, make, go down · **To what, where:** opening, one spot

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bushes, deer, Eliza), 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:pg27200:208:51
# text = Bushes grew thickly round the lake, and at one spot an opening had been made by a deer, through which Eliza went down to the water.
1	Bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	thickly	thickly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	round	round	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	opening	opening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	through	through	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obl	_	_
23	Eliza	Eliza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
25	down	down	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | Bushes |  |  |  |  | round the lake; thickly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | past · perfect · passive | a deer | a opening |  | one spot |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product |
| 3 | **go down** | past | Eliza |  |  |  |  | to the water; down *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through which=Location |

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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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