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title: It grew splendidly, and very soon hung its fresh branches over the s… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It grew splendidly, and very soon hung its fresh branches over the statue, almost down to the blue sands. Who acts: statue. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 25

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It grew splendidly, and very soon hung its fresh branches over the statue, almost down to the blue sands.

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**Who acts:** statue · **What happens:** grow, hang · **To what, where:** fresh branches, statue

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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 (statue), 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:pg27200:75:25
# text = It grew splendidly, and very soon hung its fresh branches over the statue, almost down to the blue sands.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	splendidly	splendidly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
8	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	over	over	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	statue	statue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	down	down	ADV	RB	_	8	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	sands	sand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | statue |  |  |  |  | splendidly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hang** | past |  | statue's fresh branches |  | the statue |  | soon *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent branch=Theme over statue=Destination |

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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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