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title: Wherever the two children wandered, green buds burst forth on bush a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Wherever the two children wandered, green buds burst forth on bush and tree, the grass grew higher, and the corn-fields became lovely in delicate green. Who acts: two children, green buds, grass, corn fields. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 71

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Wherever the two children wandered, green buds burst forth on bush and tree, the grass grew higher, and the corn-fields became lovely in delicate green.

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**Who acts:** two children, green buds, grass, corn fields · **What happens:** wander, burst, grow, become · **To what, where:** bush

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two children, green buds, grass, corn fields), 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:pg27200:214:71
# text = Wherever the two children wandered, green buds burst forth on bush and tree, the grass grew higher, and the corn-fields became lovely in delicate green.
1	Wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	buds	bud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	burst	burst	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
10	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
27	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	delicate	delicate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wander** | past | the two children |  |  |  |  | wherever *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **burst** | present | green buds |  |  | bush and tree |  | forth *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bush=Location |
| 3 | **grow** | past | the grass |  |  |  |  | high *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **become** | past | the corn fields |  |  |  |  | lovely *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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