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title: These young trees, which were chosen for their beauty, kept their br… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: These young trees, which were chosen for their beauty, kept their branches, and were also laid on wagons and drawn by horses out of the forest. Who acts: young trees. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 28

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These young trees, which were chosen for their beauty, kept their branches, and were also laid on wagons and drawn by horses out of the forest.

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**Who acts:** young trees · **What happens:** choose, keep, lay, draw · **To what, where:** young trees, branches, wagons, forest

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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 (young trees), 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:pg27200:33:28
# text = These young trees, which were chosen for their beauty, kept their branches, and were also laid on wagons and drawn by horses out of the forest.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
18	also	also	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	parataxis	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	wagons	wagon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | past · passive |  | this young trees |  |  |  | for tears's beauty | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for beauty=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **keep** | past | this young trees | tears's branches |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Theme |
| 3 | **lay** | past · passive |  |  |  | wagons |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: on wagon=Destination |
| 4 | **draw** | participle |  |  |  | the forest |  | by horses | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent out forest=Initial\_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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