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title: Then they played in a side-walk, and marked out a little garden on t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they played in a side-walk, and marked out a little garden on the ground; she took elder-blossoms out of her hair and planted them, and they grew exactly like those the old people planted when they were children, as we have heard before. Who acts: sparks, girl, old people, we. A sentence of «Fa
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 80

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Then they played in a side-walk, and marked out a little garden on the ground; she took elder-blossoms out of her hair and planted them, and they grew exactly like those the old people planted when they were children, as we have heard before.

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**Who acts:** sparks, girl, old people, we · **What happens:** play, mark out, take, plant, grow, be · **To what, where:** side walk, little garden, ground, elder blossoms, hair, sparks

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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 (sparks, girl, old people, we), 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:pg27200:72:80
# text = Then they played in a side-walk, and marked out a little garden on the ground; she took elder-blossoms out of her hair and planted them, and they grew exactly like those the old people planted when they were children, as we have heard before.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	marked	mark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	planted	plant	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
36	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
37	like	like	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	35	obl	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nsubj	_	_
42	planted	plant	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	acl:relcl	_	_
43	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	46	advmod	_	_
44	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
45	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	cop	_	_
46	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
48	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
49	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
50	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	35	conj	_	_
52	before	before	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | past | sparks *= spark* |  |  | a side walk | then |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mark out** | participle | sparks *= spark* *not said here* | a little garden |  | the ground |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent garden=Theme on ground=Destination |
| 3 | **take** | past | girl | elder blossoms |  | girl's hair |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent blossom=Theme out hair=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **plant** | past | girl *not said here* | sparks *= spark* |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 5 | **grow** | past | sparks *= spark* |  |  |  |  | like those; exactly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **plant** | past | the old people |  |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is a** | past | sparks *= spark* | children |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **hear** | present · perfect | we |  |  |  |  | before *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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