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title: But now it was winter, the tree stood leafless, so that every one co… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But now it was winter, the tree stood leafless, so that every one could see how crooked and bent were the branches that sprang forth from the trunk. Who acts: oak, tree, one, crooked branches. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, wi
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 43

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But now it was winter, the tree stood leafless, so that every one could see how crooked and bent were the branches that sprang forth from the trunk.

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**Who acts:** oak, tree, one, crooked branches · **What happens:** be, stand, see, bend, sprang · **To what, where:** winter, crooked branches, trunk

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (oak, tree, one, crooked branches), 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:pg27200:69:43
# text = But now it was winter, the tree stood leafless, so that every one could see how crooked and bent were the branches that sprang forth from the trunk.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	leafless	leafless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	17	mark	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
18	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
19	crooked	crooked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	bent	bend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	sprang	sprang	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | oak | winter |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stand** | past | the tree |  |  |  |  | leafless *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **see** | could | every one |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **bend** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | past |  | the crooked branches |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **sprang** | present | the crooked branches |  |  | the trunk |  | forth *property* | tree rules |

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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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