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title: In the window stood a bush bearing monthly roses. — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In the window stood a bush bearing monthly roses. 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 46

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In the window stood a bush bearing monthly roses.

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**What happens:** stand, bear · **To what, where:** bush, window, monthly roses

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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: 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:pg27200:30:46
# text = In the window stood a bush bearing monthly roses.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	bearing	bear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
8	monthly	monthly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past |  | a bush |  | the window |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bush=Theme in window=Destination |
| 2 | **bear** | gerund |  | monthly roses |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rose=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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