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title: No one bound these flowers together in a nosegay; they were too comm… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: No one bound these flowers together in a nosegay; they were too common; they were even known to grow between the paving-stones, shooting up everywhere, like bad weeds; and they bore the very ugly name of "dog-flowers" or "dandelions." Who acts: one, branches. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Chris
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, sentence 20

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No one bound these flowers together in a nosegay; they were too common; they were even known to grow between the paving-stones, shooting up everywhere, like bad weeds; and they bore the very ugly name of "dog-flowers" or "dandelions."

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**Who acts:** one, branches · **What happens:** bind, be, know, grow, shoot up, bear · **To what, where:** flowers, branches, paving stones, ugly name, dog flowers

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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 (one, branches), 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:pg27200:6:20
# text = No one bound these flowers together in a nosegay; they were too common; they were even known to grow between the paving-stones, shooting up everywhere, like bad weeds; and they bore the very ugly name of "dog-flowers" or "dandelions."
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
3	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	together	together	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	nosegay	nosegay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	too	too	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
18	even	even	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	between	between	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	paving	paving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	shooting	shoot	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
29	up	up	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	like	like	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	weeds	weed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
40	very	very	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
44	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	47	punct	_	_
49	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
50	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	51	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	dandelions	dandelion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bind** | participle | no one *not said here* | this flowers |  |  |  | in a nosegay; together *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent flower=Destination in nosegay=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | no one |  |  |  |  | common *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **know** | past · passive |  | branches *= branch* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **grow** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the paving stones |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between stone=Location |
| 5 | **shoot up** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | like bad weeds; everywhere *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **bear** | past | branches *= branch* | the ugly name of dog flowers or dandelions |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient |
| 7 | **name** |  |  | dog flowers or dandelions |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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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