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title: Red and yellow flowers grew in the ditches, wild hops and convolvuli… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Red and yellow flowers grew in the ditches, wild hops and convolvuli in full bloom in the hedges. Who acts: Red flowers. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 90

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Red and yellow flowers grew in the ditches, wild hops and convolvuli in full bloom in the hedges.

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**Who acts:** Red flowers · **What happens:** grow · **To what, where:** ditches

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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 (Red flowers), 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:pg27200:72:90
# text = Red and yellow flowers grew in the ditches, wild hops and convolvuli in full bloom in the hedges.
1	Red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ditches	ditch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	hops	hop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	convolvuli	convolvuli	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	bloom	bloom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	hedges	hedge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | Red flowers |  |  | the ditches and wild hops and convolvuli |  | in full bloom; in the hedges | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ditch=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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