--- title: The object was hidden by two or three great leaves, which covered it… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The object was hidden by two or three great leaves, which covered it like a shield, so that no draught or gust of wind could injure it, and it was carried more carefully than the apple-branch had ever been. Who acts: two great leaves, draught. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» b --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/6/49/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Conceited Apple-branch](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/6/) / 49 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, sentence 49 The object was hidden by two or three great leaves, which covered it like a shield, so that no draught or gust of wind could injure it, and it was carried more carefully than the apple-branch had ever been. **Who acts:** two great leaves, draught · **What happens:** hide, cover, injure, carry, have · **To what, where:** object 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 (two great leaves, draught), 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:pg27200:6:49 # text = The object was hidden by two or three great leaves, which covered it like a shield, so that no draught or gust of wind could injure it, and it was carried more carefully than the apple-branch had ever been. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 object object NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 hidden hide VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 by by ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 6 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 conj _ _ 9 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 covered cover VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 like like ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 shield shield NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 19 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 28 mark _ _ 20 that that SCONJ IN _ 19 fixed _ _ 21 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 22 det _ _ 22 draught draught NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 gust gust NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 27 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 injure injure VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 carried carry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 35 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 36 advmod _ _ 36 carefully carefully ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 37 than than ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 39 apple apple NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 40 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 branch branch NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 42 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 advcl _ _ 43 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 44 advmod _ _ 44 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 42 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hide** | past · passive | two great leaves | the object | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | | 2 | **cover** | past | two great leaves | object | | | | like a shield | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination | | 3 | **injure** | could | no draught or gust of wind | object | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **carry** | past · passive | | object | | | | than the apple branch; carefully *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **have** | participle | | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/6/48/) - next →: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/6/50/) - ↑ back to [The Conceited Apple-branch](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/6/)