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title: The little party walked slowly from this place to Montreux, passing… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The little party walked slowly from this place to Montreux, passing the sun-lit walls with which the vineyards of the little mountain town of Montreux are surrounded, and peasants' houses, overshadowed by fig-trees, with gardens in which grow the laurel and the cypress. Who acts: little party, fig t
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, X. the Godmother, sentence 15

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The little party walked slowly from this place to Montreux, passing the sun-lit walls with which the vineyards of the little mountain town of Montreux are surrounded, and peasants' houses, overshadowed by fig-trees, with gardens in which grow the laurel and the cypress.

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**Who acts:** little party, fig trees, gardens · **What happens:** walk, pass, lit, surround, overshadow, grow · **To what, where:** place, lit walls, vineyards, houses, laurel

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, X. the Godmother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little party, fig trees, gardens), 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:pg27200:61:15
# text = The little party walked slowly from this place to Montreux, passing the sun-lit walls with which the vineyards of the little mountain town of Montreux are surrounded, and peasants' houses, overshadowed by fig-trees, with gardens in which grow the laurel and the cypress.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Montreux	Montreux	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	lit	lit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	obl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	vineyards	vineyard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Montreux	Montreux	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
33	peasants	peasant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	'	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	overshadowed	overshadow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
38	by	by	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	fig	fig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	with	with	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	47	nsubj	_	_
47	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	acl:relcl	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	laurel	laurel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	cypress	cypress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past | the little party |  |  | this place to Montreux |  | slowly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from place=Trajectory |
| 2 | **pass** | gerund | the little party *not said here* | the lit walls |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wall=Trajectory |
| 3 | **lit** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **surround** | present · passive |  | the vineyards of the little mountain town of Montreux |  |  |  | with the lit walls | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with which=Theme |
| 5 | **overshadow** | participle · passive | fig trees | peasants's houses |  |  |  | with gardens | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent subject=Patient with garden=Instrument |
| 6 | **grow** | present | gardens | the laurel and the cypress |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location laurel=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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