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title: Beautiful weeping willows, real products of spring, hung their fresh… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Beautiful weeping willows, real products of spring, hung their fresh branches over these lakes like a fresh, green, transparent, and yet screening veil. Who acts: Beautiful weeping willows. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, with its dependen
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 57

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Beautiful weeping willows, real products of spring, hung their fresh branches over these lakes like a fresh, green, transparent, and yet screening veil.

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**Who acts:** Beautiful weeping willows · **What happens:** hang, screen · **To what, where:** fresh branches, lakes

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, 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 (Beautiful weeping willows), 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:pg27200:26:57
# text = Beautiful weeping willows, real products of spring, hung their fresh branches over these lakes like a fresh, green, transparent, and yet screening veil.
1	Beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	weeping	weeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	willows	willow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	products	product	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	over	over	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
17	like	like	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
19	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	transparent	transparent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	screening	screen	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	amod	_	_
28	veil	veil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | past | Beautiful weeping willows and real products of spring | willows's fresh branches |  | this lakes like a fresh screening veil |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent branch=Theme over lake=Destination |
| 2 | **screen** | gerund |  |  |  |  | yet |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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