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title: And the apple-branch looked with a sort of pity upon them, especiall… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And the apple-branch looked with a sort of pity upon them, especially on a certain little flower that is found in fields and in ditches. Who acts: apple branch. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, sentence 19

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And the apple-branch looked with a sort of pity upon them, especially on a certain little flower that is found in fields and in ditches.

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**Who acts:** apple branch · **What happens:** look, find, sort · **To what, where:** certain little flower, fields, pity

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (apple branch), 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:pg27200:6:19
# text = And the apple-branch looked with a sort of pity upon them, especially on a certain little flower that is found in fields and in ditches.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	ditches	ditch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | the apple branch |  |  | a certain little flower |  | with a sort of pity; upon equals *= equal* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon they=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | present · passive |  | a certain little flower |  | fields and ditches |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **sort** |  |  | pity |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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