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title: The large trees which grew round it saw the plant and heard the rema… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The large trees which grew round it saw the plant and heard the remarks, but they said not a word either good or bad, which is the wisest plan for those who are ignorant. Who acts: large trees, system, trees, word. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Leaf From
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven, sentence 15

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The large trees which grew round it saw the plant and heard the remarks, but they said not a word either good or bad, which is the wisest plan for those who are ignorant.

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**Who acts:** large trees, system, trees, word · **What happens:** grow, see, hear, not say, be · **To what, where:** plant, remarks, word, wisest plan · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (large trees, system, trees, word), 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:pg27200:49:15
# text = The large trees which grew round it saw the plant and heard the remarks, but they said not a word either good or bad, which is the wisest plan for those who are ignorant.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	round	round	ADP	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	remarks	remark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc:preconj	_	_
23	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	wisest	wise	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	31	amod	_	_
31	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	31	nmod	_	_
34	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
35	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
36	ignorant	ignorant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | the large trees |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | system | the plant |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer plant=Stimulus |
| 3 | **hear** | past | system *not said here* | the remarks |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer remark=Stimulus |
| 4 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | past | trees *= tree* | a word and the wisest plan |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
| 5 | **is a** | present | a word and the wisest plan | the wisest plan |  |  |  | for those | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | ignorant *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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