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title: At the back, large palm-trees were growing; and the sunlight made th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: At the back, large palm-trees were growing; and the sunlight made the leaves--look quite glossy; and beneath them what a profusion of luxuriant green, and of flowers red like flame, yellow as amber, or white as new-fallen snow! " Who acts: large palm trees, sunlight, flowers. A sentence of «Fairy Ta
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 109

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At the back, large palm-trees were growing; and the sunlight made the leaves--look quite glossy; and beneath them what a profusion of luxuriant green, and of flowers red like flame, yellow as amber, or white as new-fallen snow! "

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**Who acts:** large palm trees, sunlight, flowers · **What happens:** grow, make, look, red, fall · **To what, where:** back, leaves

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (large palm trees, sunlight, flowers), 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:pg27200:8:109
# text = At the back, large palm-trees were growing; and the sunlight made the leaves--look quite glossy; and beneath them what a profusion of luxuriant green, and of flowers red like flame, yellow as amber, or white as new-fallen snow! "
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	palm	palm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
20	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	glossy	glossy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
26	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	profusion	profusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	luxuriant	luxuriant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
36	red	red	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	appos	_	_
37	like	like	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
41	as	as	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	amber	amber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	parataxis	_	_
46	as	as	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
47	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	50	amod	_	_
50	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	45	punct	_	_
52	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past · progressive | large palm trees |  |  | the back |  | beneath wings *= wing* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at back=Location |
| 2 | **make** | past | the sunlight | the leaves |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset leaf=Product |
| 3 | **look** | present | the sunlight *not said here* |  |  |  |  | glossy *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **red** | present | flowers |  |  |  |  | like flame | tree rules |
| 5 | **fall** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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