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title: Outside the castle there was a beautiful garden, in which grew brigh… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Outside the castle there was a beautiful garden, in which grew bright red and dark blue flowers, and blossoms like flames of fire; the fruit glittered like gold, and the leaves and stems waved to and fro continually. Who acts: beautiful garden, fruit, leaves, fire. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 16

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Outside the castle there was a beautiful garden, in which grew bright red and dark blue flowers, and blossoms like flames of fire; the fruit glittered like gold, and the leaves and stems waved to and fro continually.

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**Who acts:** beautiful garden, fruit, leaves, fire · **What happens:** be, grow, glitter, wave, fro, flame · **To what, where:** beautiful garden, bright red blue flowers

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful garden, fruit, leaves, fire), 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:pg27200:75:16
# text = Outside the castle there was a beautiful garden, in which grew bright red and dark blue flowers, and blossoms like flames of fire; the fruit glittered like gold, and the leaves and stems waved to and fro continually.
1	Outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
14	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
22	like	like	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	glittered	glitter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
30	like	like	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	stems	stem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	_
38	waved	wave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	parataxis	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	obl	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	fro	fro	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	conj	_	_
42	continually	continually	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | a beautiful garden |  |  |  | outside the castle | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | past | a beautiful garden | bright red blue flowers and blossoms like flames of fire |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location flower=Theme |
| 3 | **glitter** | participle | the fruit |  |  |  |  | like gold | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **wave** | past | the leaves and stems |  |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **fro** | infinitive | the leaves and stems *not said here* |  |  |  |  | continually *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **flame** |  | fire |  |  |  |  |  | nom flame «process intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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