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title: Real life furnishes us with subjects for the most wonderful fairy ta… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Real life furnishes us with subjects for the most wonderful fairy tales; for otherwise my beautiful elder-bush could not have grown forth out of the teapot." Who acts: Real life. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, with its dependen
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 63

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Real life furnishes us with subjects for the most wonderful fairy tales; for otherwise my beautiful elder-bush could not have grown forth out of the teapot."

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**Who acts:** Real life · **What happens:** furnish, not grow · **To what, where:** us, beautiful elder bush, teapot

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Real life), 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:pg27200:72:63
# text = Real life furnishes us with subjects for the most wonderful fairy tales; for otherwise my beautiful elder-bush could not have grown forth out of the teapot."
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	furnishes	furnish	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	subjects	subject	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	10	advmod	_	_
10	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	RB	_	24	obl	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
17	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	elder	elder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
23	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux	_	_
24	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
25	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	teapot	teapot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **furnish** | present | Real life |  | us |  |  | with subjects for the wonderful fairy tales | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent we=Recipient with subject=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **grow** | could · perfect · passive |  | my beautiful elder bush |  | the teapot |  | forth *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for otherwise=Beneficiary |

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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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