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title: Here, on the hedges, and by the wayside, grew purple, green, and whi… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Here, on the hedges, and by the wayside, grew purple, green, and white grapes; lemons and oranges hung from trees in the woods; and the air was fragrant with myrtles and orange blossoms. Who acts: air. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelin
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 161

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Here, on the hedges, and by the wayside, grew purple, green, and white grapes; lemons and oranges hung from trees in the woods; and the air was fragrant with myrtles and orange blossoms.

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**Who acts:** air · **What happens:** grow, hang, be · **To what, where:** lemons, oranges, trees

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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 (air), 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:pg27200:79:161
# text = Here, on the hedges, and by the wayside, grew purple, green, and white grapes; lemons and oranges hung from trees in the woods; and the air was fragrant with myrtles and orange blossoms.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hedges	hedge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	wayside	wayside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	purple	purple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	grapes	grape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	lemons	lemon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	oranges	orange	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
24	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
35	fragrant	fragrant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	myrtles	myrtle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past |  | lemons and oranges |  | here |  | by the wayside; purple *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by wayside=Location |
| 2 | **hang** | participle |  | oranges *not said here* |  | trees |  | in the woods | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in wood=Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | the air |  |  |  |  | with myrtles and orange blossoms; fragrant *property* | 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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