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title: The little island, on which grew the three acacias, lay at a short d… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The little island, on which grew the three acacias, lay at a short distance, looking like a bouquet rising from the lake. " Who acts: little island. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 5

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The little island, on which grew the three acacias, lay at a short distance, looking like a bouquet rising from the lake. "

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**Who acts:** little island · **What happens:** grow, lay, look, rise · **To what, where:** three acacias, lake

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. the Conclusion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little island), 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:pg27200:66:5
# text = The little island, on which grew the three acacias, lay at a short distance, looking like a bouquet rising from the lake. "
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	acacias	acacia	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
19	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	bouquet	bouquet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | the little island | the three acacias |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location acacia=Theme |
| 2 | **lay** | present | the little island *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at a short distance | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at distance=Destination |
| 3 | **look** | gerund | the little island *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like a bouquet | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **rise** | gerund | the little island *not said here* |  |  | the lake |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from lake=Initial\_Location |

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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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