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title: A burdock never grows alone; where it grows, there are many more, an… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A burdock never grows alone; where it grows, there are many more, and it is a splendid sight; and all this splendor is good for snails. Who acts: burdock, many more, splendor. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family, with its dependency tree and the
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Happy Family, sentence 3

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A burdock never grows alone; where it grows, there are many more, and it is a splendid sight; and all this splendor is good for snails.

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**Who acts:** burdock, many more, splendor · **What happens:** not grow, grow, be · **To what, where:** splendid sight

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (burdock, many more, splendor), 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:pg27200:48:3
# text = A burdock never grows alone; where it grows, there are many more, and it is a splendid sight; and all this splendor is good for snails.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	burdock	burdock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	advmod	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
13	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	26	det:predet	_	_
25	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	splendor	splendor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	snails	snail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **grow** | present | a burdock |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | present | burdock |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **be** | present | many more |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present | burdock | a splendid sight |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | all splendor |  |  |  |  | for snails; good *property* | tree rules |

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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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