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title: And the fir-tree thought of the pretty little birch-tree that grew i… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And the fir-tree thought of the pretty little birch-tree that grew in the forest, which was to him a real beautiful princess. Who acts: pretty little birch tree, forest. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 124

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And the fir-tree thought of the pretty little birch-tree that grew in the forest, which was to him a real beautiful princess.

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**Who acts:** pretty little birch tree, forest · **What happens:** grow, be, think · **To what, where:** forest, pretty little birch tree

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pretty little birch tree, forest), 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:pg27200:33:124
# text = And the fir-tree thought of the pretty little birch-tree that grew in the forest, which was to him a real beautiful princess.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	fir	fir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
9	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	birch	birch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | the pretty little birch tree |  |  | the forest |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Location |
| 2 | **is** | past | the forest |  |  |  |  | to Humpty | tree rules |
| 3 | **think** |  |  | the pretty little birch tree |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=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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