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title: In the yard, in an arbour formed by lilac bushes in full bloom, stoo… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In the yard, in an arbour formed by lilac bushes in full bloom, stood an open coffin; thither they had carried a dead man, who was to be buried that very afternoon. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dumb Book, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dumb Book, sentence 3

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In the yard, in an arbour formed by lilac bushes in full bloom, stood an open coffin; thither they had carried a dead man, who was to be buried that very afternoon.

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**What happens:** form, stand, carry, bury · **To what, where:** arbour, full bloom, open coffin, people, dead man

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dumb Book. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg27200:29:3
# text = In the yard, in an arbour formed by lilac bushes in full bloom, stood an open coffin; thither they had carried a dead man, who was to be buried that very afternoon.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	arbour	arbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
8	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	lilac	lilac	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	bloom	bloom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
16	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	coffin	coffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
21	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl:relcl	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
35	very	very	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** | participle |  | a arbour *not said here* |  | full bloom |  | by lilac bushes | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by bush=Location |
| 2 | **stand** | past |  | a open coffin |  |  |  | in the yard | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent coffin=Theme in yard=Destination |
| 3 | **carry** | past · perfect · passive |  | people |  |  |  | thither *property* | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary man=Value |
| 4 | **bury** | past · passive |  | a dead man |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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