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title: Then she went home and planted it, and immediately there grew up a l… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she went home and planted it, and immediately there grew up a large handsome flower, something like a tulip in appearance, but with its leaves tightly closed as if it were still a bud. " Who acts: fairy, barleycorn. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Littl
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 6

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Then she went home and planted it, and immediately there grew up a large handsome flower, something like a tulip in appearance, but with its leaves tightly closed as if it were still a bud. "

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**Who acts:** fairy, barleycorn · **What happens:** go, plant, grow up, close, be · **To what, where:** barleycorn, large handsome flower, leaves

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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 (fairy, barleycorn), 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:pg27200:79:6
# text = Then she went home and planted it, and immediately there grew up a large handsome flower, something like a tulip in appearance, but with its leaves tightly closed as if it were still a bud. "
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	home	home	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	planted	plant	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
12	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	17	appos	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	tulip	tulip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	tightly	tightly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	38	case	_	_
33	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	32	fixed	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
35	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
36	still	still	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	bud	bud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
40	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | fairy |  |  |  | then | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **plant** | past | fairy *not said here* | barleycorn |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **grow up** | past | fairy *not said here* | a large handsome flower |  | there |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location flower=Theme |
| 4 | **close** | participle · passive |  | barleycorn's leaves |  |  |  | tightly *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | past | barleycorn |  |  |  | still | as a bud | 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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