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title: There was once an old estate where no one now lived to require snail… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There was once an old estate where no one now lived to require snails; indeed, the owners had all died out, but the burdock still flourished; it grew over all the beds and walks of the garden--its growth had no check--till it became at last quite a forest of burdocks. Who acts: old estate, one, owne
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Happy Family, sentence 5

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There was once an old estate where no one now lived to require snails; indeed, the owners had all died out, but the burdock still flourished; it grew over all the beds and walks of the garden--its growth had no check--till it became at last quite a forest of burdocks.

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**Who acts:** old estate, one, owners, burdock, growth · **What happens:** be, live, require, die out, flourish, grow · **To what, where:** snails, old estate, beds, check, last forest, garden

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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 (old estate, one, owners, burdock), 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:pg27200:48:5
# text = There was once an old estate where no one now lived to require snails; indeed, the owners had all died out, but the burdock still flourished; it grew over all the beds and walks of the garden--its growth had no check--till it became at last quite a forest of burdocks.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	2	advmod	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	estate	estate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	11	advmod	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
11	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	require	require	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	snails	snail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
16	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	owners	owner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	all	all	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	died	die	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	acl	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	burdock	burdock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	still	still	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	flourished	flourish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
33	over	over	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	36	det:predet	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	beds	bed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	walks	walk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	conj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
45	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
46	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	47	det	_	_
47	check	check	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
50	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
51	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	conj	_	_
52	at	at	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
53	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
54	quite	quite	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	56	det:predet	_	_
55	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	_
57	of	of	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	burdocks	burdock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a old estate |  |  | there |  | once *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | past | no one |  |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **require** | to-infinitive | no one *not said here* | snails |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme snail=Precondition |
| 4 | **die out** | past · perfect | the owners | a old estate *not said here* |  |  |  | all, indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **flourish** | past | the burdock |  |  |  | still |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **grow** | past | burdock |  |  | all beds and walks of the garden |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over bed=Location |
| 7 | **have** | past | burdock's growth | no check |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent check=Patient |
| 8 | **become** | past | burdock |  |  | quite last forest of burdocks |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 9 | **walk** |  |  | the garden |  |  |  |  | nom walk «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 10 | **grow** |  | burdock |  |  |  |  |  | nom growth «process intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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