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title: They grew near the shelter of the walls, wound themselves round colu… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They grew near the shelter of the walls, wound themselves round columns and window-frames, crept along passages and over the ceilings of the halls. Who acts: roses. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Loveliest Rose in the World, with its dependency tree and
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Loveliest Rose in the World, sentence 3

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They grew near the shelter of the walls, wound themselves round columns and window-frames, crept along passages and over the ceilings of the halls.

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**Who acts:** roses · **What happens:** grow, wound, creep · **To what, where:** shelter, roses, columns, passages

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Loveliest Rose in the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (roses), 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:pg27200:81:3
# text = They grew near the shelter of the walls, wound themselves round columns and window-frames, crept along passages and over the ceilings of the halls.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	near	near	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	shelter	shelter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	wound	wound	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
11	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obj	_	_
12	round	round	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	columns	column	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	frames	frame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	crept	creep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
20	along	along	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	passages	passage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	over	over	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	ceilings	ceiling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	halls	hall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	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 | roses *= rose* |  |  | the shelter of the walls |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near shelter=Location |
| 2 | **wound** | infinitive | roses *= rose* *not said here* | roses *= rose* |  |  |  | round columns and window frames | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus themselves=Experiencer |
| 3 | **creep** | participle |  | columns and window frames *not said here* |  | passages and the ceilings of the halls |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along passage=Trajectory |

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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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