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title: In the midst of a garden grew a rose-tree, in full blossom, and in t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In the midst of a garden grew a rose-tree, in full blossom, and in the prettiest of all the roses lived an elf. Who acts: prettiest. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 1

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In the midst of a garden grew a rose-tree, in full blossom, and in the prettiest of all the roses lived an elf.

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**Who acts:** prettiest · **What happens:** grow, live · **To what, where:** rose tree, midst, elf

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elf of the Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prettiest), 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:pg27200:30:1
# text = In the midst of a garden grew a rose-tree, in full blossom, and in the prettiest of all the roses lived an elf.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	blossom	blossom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	25	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	24	det:predet	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
25	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	elf	elf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past |  | a rose tree |  | the midst of a garden |  | in full blossom | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | past | the prettiest | a elf |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme elf=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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