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title: The corn which had been sown in the field over the house of the fiel… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The corn which had been sown in the field over the house of the field-mouse had grown up high into the air, and formed a thick wood to Tiny, who was only an inch in height. Who acts: corn, thick wood. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 122

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The corn which had been sown in the field over the house of the field-mouse had grown up high into the air, and formed a thick wood to Tiny, who was only an inch in height.

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**Who acts:** corn, thick wood · **What happens:** sow, grow up, form, be · **To what, where:** corn, field, house, thick wood, Tiny, inch

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (corn, thick wood), 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:pg27200:79:122
# text = The corn which had been sown in the field over the house of the field-mouse had grown up high into the air, and formed a thick wood to Tiny, who was only an inch in height.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
3	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	sown	sow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	over	over	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	formed	form	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Tiny	Tiny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
36	only	only	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
37	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	inch	inch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sow** | past · perfect · passive |  | the corn |  | the field |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in field=Destination |
| 2 | **grow up** | past · perfect |  |  |  | the house |  | of the field mouse; into the air; high *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over house=Location |
| 3 | **form** | past | the corn | a thick wood and a inch | Tiny |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent wood=Theme to tiny=Recipient |
| 4 | **is a** | past | a thick wood and a inch | a inch |  | height |  |  | tree rules |

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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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