--- title: Under the little apple-tree, Spring seemed busy, and told his tale f… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Under the little apple-tree, Spring seemed busy, and told his tale from one of the branches which hung fresh and blooming, and covered with delicate pink blossoms that were just ready to open. Who acts: Spring, branches, delicate pink blossoms, flower. 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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 (Spring, branches, delicate pink blossoms, flower), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:6:4 # text = Under the little apple-tree, Spring seemed busy, and told his tale from one of the branches which hung fresh and blooming, and covered with delicate pink blossoms that were just ready to open. 1 Under under ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 3 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 4 apple apple NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 Spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 busy busy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 tale tale NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 from from ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 branches branch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 21 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 22 hung hang VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 23 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 xcomp _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 blooming bloom VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 delicate delicate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 31 pink pink ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 blossoms blossom NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 33 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 34 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 35 just just ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 acl:relcl _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 open open VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **seem** | past | Spring | | | the little apple tree | | busy *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | | flower's tale | | | | from one of the branches | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient | | 3 | **hang** | past | the branches | | | | | fresh *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **bloom** | gerund | the branches *not said here* | | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **cover** | participle | | | | | | with delicate pink blossoms | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with blossom=Theme | | 6 | **is** | past | delicate pink blossoms | | | | | ready *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **open** | to-infinitive | delicate pink blossoms *not said here* | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **tell** | | flower | | | | | | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/6/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/6/5/) - ↑ back to [The Conceited Apple-branch](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/6/)