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title: The walnut and chestnut trees, which extend from the bridge of St. M… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The walnut and chestnut trees, which extend from the bridge of St. Maurice, by the river Rhone, to the shores of the lake of Geneva, were already covered with the delicate green garlands of early spring, just bursting into bloom, while the Rhone rushed wildly from its source among the green glaciers
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IX. the Ice Maiden, sentence 1

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The walnut and chestnut trees, which extend from the bridge of St. Maurice, by the river Rhone, to the shores of the lake of Geneva, were already covered with the delicate green garlands of early spring, just bursting into bloom, while the Rhone rushed wildly from its source among the green glaciers which form the ice palace of the Ice Maiden.

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**Who acts:** chestnut trees, Rhone, green glaciers · **What happens:** extend, cover, burst, rush, form · **To what, where:** bridge, walnut, bloom, source, ice palace

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IX. the Ice Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chestnut trees, Rhone, green glaciers), 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:pg27200:60:1
# text = The walnut and chestnut trees, which extend from the bridge of St. Maurice, by the river Rhone, to the shores of the lake of Geneva, were already covered with the delicate green garlands of early spring, just bursting into bloom, while the Rhone rushed wildly from its source among the green glaciers which form the ice palace of the Ice Maiden.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	walnut	walnut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	chestnut	chestnut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	extend	extend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:desc	_	_
14	Maurice	Maurice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Rhone	rhone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	shores	shore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Geneva	Geneva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
30	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
31	already	already	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
35	delicate	delicate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
36	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	garlands	garland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	just	just	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	bursting	burst	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	advcl	_	_
44	into	into	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	bloom	bloom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
47	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	Rhone	rhone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
50	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
51	wildly	wildly	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
52	from	from	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
54	source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
55	among	among	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
57	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	glaciers	glacier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	nmod	_	_
59	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	60	nsubj	_	_
60	form	form	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	58	acl:relcl	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
62	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	compound	_	_
63	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obj	_	_
64	of	of	ADP	IN	_	67	case	_	_
65	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	67	det	_	_
66	Ice	Ice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	67	compound	_	_
67	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	63	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **extend** | present | chestnut trees |  |  | the bridge of Maurice  St. |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cover** | past · passive |  | the walnut and chestnut trees and the river Rhone and the shores of the lake of Geneva |  |  |  | with the delicate green garlands of early spring | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with garland=Theme |
| 3 | **burst** | gerund |  |  |  | bloom |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **rush** | past | the Rhone |  |  | Rhone's source among the green glaciers |  | wildly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from source=Trajectory |
| 5 | **form** | present | the green glaciers | the ice palace of the Ice Maiden |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location palace=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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