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title: Here and there stood an apple or a plum-tree; but for this, nobody w… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Here and there stood an apple or a plum-tree; but for this, nobody would have thought the place had ever been a garden. Who acts: place. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Happy Family, sentence 6

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Here and there stood an apple or a plum-tree; but for this, nobody would have thought the place had ever been a garden.

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**Who acts:** place · **What happens:** stand, think, have, be · **To what, where:** apple, nobody, 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 (place), 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:pg27200:48:6
# text = Here and there stood an apple or a plum-tree; but for this, nobody would have thought the place had ever been a garden.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	conj	_	_
4	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	plum	plum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
17	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux	_	_
20	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl	_	_
24	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	27	advmod	_	_
25	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	cop	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past |  | a apple or a plum tree |  | here |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer apple=Stimulus |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | would · perfect · passive |  | nobody |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme place=Attribute |
| 3 | **have** | past | the place *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | participle |  | a garden |  |  | ever |  | 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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