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title: On one branch they hung little bags cut out of colored paper, and ea… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: On one branch they hung little bags cut out of colored paper, and each bag was filled with sweetmeats; from other branches hung gilded apples and walnuts, as if they had grown there; and above, and all round, were hundreds of red, blue, and white tapers, which were fastened on the branches. Who acts
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 63

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On one branch they hung little bags cut out of colored paper, and each bag was filled with sweetmeats; from other branches hung gilded apples and walnuts, as if they had grown there; and above, and all round, were hundreds of red, blue, and white tapers, which were fastened on the branches.

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**Who acts:** servants, little bags · **What happens:** hang, cut out, color, fill, gild, grow · **To what, where:** little bags, one branch, colored paper, bag, gilded apples, other branches

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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 (servants, little bags), 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:pg27200:33:63
# text = On one branch they hung little bags cut out of colored paper, and each bag was filled with sweetmeats; from other branches hung gilded apples and walnuts, as if they had grown there; and above, and all round, were hundreds of red, blue, and white tapers, which were fastened on the branches.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	bags	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	colored	color	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	sweetmeats	sweetmeat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
25	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
26	gilded	gild	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	amod	_	_
27	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	walnuts	walnut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
32	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	conj	_	_
36	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	above	above	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
42	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	46	det	_	_
43	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
45	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	cop	_	_
46	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
50	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
53	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	tapers	taper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
56	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	58	nsubj:pass	_	_
57	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	aux:pass	_	_
58	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	54	acl:relcl	_	_
59	on	on	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	58	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | past | servants *= servant* | little bags |  | one branch |  | white tapers *obl*; above *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bag=Theme on branch=Destination |
| 2 | **cut out** | participle | little bags *not said here* | colored paper |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector paper=Eventuality |
| 3 | **color** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fill** | past · passive |  | each bag |  |  |  | with sweetmeats | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with sweetmeat=Instrument |
| 5 | **hang** | past | servants *= servant* *not said here* | gilded apples and walnuts |  | other branches |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Patient |
| 6 | **gild** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **grow** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | servants *= servant* |  |  | there |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **is a** | past |  | all hundreds |  |  |  | of red | tree rules |
| 9 | **fasten** | past · passive |  | white tapers |  |  |  | on the branches | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient on branch=Co-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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