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title: Close to where they stood grew a hazel-bush, covered with beautiful… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Close to where they stood grew a hazel-bush, covered with beautiful nuts. Who acts: quantities. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 54

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Close to where they stood grew a hazel-bush, covered with beautiful nuts.

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**Who acts:** quantities · **What happens:** stand, grow, cover · **To what, where:** hazel bush

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (quantities), 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:pg27200:51:54
# text = Close to where they stood grew a hazel-bush, covered with beautiful nuts.
1	Close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
2	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	5	advmod	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
6	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	hazel	hazel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | quantities *= quantity* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **grow** | past |  | a hazel bush |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bush=Theme |
| 3 | **cover** | participle |  | a hazel bush *not said here* |  |  |  | with beautiful nuts | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with nut=Theme |

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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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