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title: There still stands the birch, with its white bark and its delicate,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There still stands the birch, with its white bark and its delicate, loosely hanging leaves; and with regard to the living beings who frequented this spot, the fly still wears a gauzy dress of the same cut, and the favorite colors of the stork are white, with black and red for stockings. Who acts: li
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 13

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There still stands the birch, with its white bark and its delicate, loosely hanging leaves; and with regard to the living beings who frequented this spot, the fly still wears a gauzy dress of the same cut, and the favorite colors of the stork are white, with black and red for stockings.

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**Who acts:** living beings, fly, favorite colors · **What happens:** stand, hang, frequent, wear, be · **To what, where:** birch, leaves, spot, gauzy dress

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (living beings, fly, favorite colors), 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:pg27200:83:13
# text = There still stands the birch, with its white bark and its delicate, loosely hanging leaves; and with regard to the living beings who frequented this spot, the fly still wears a gauzy dress of the same cut, and the favorite colors of the stork are white, with black and red for stockings.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	still	still	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	birch	birch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	delicate	delicate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	loosely	loosely	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	parataxis	_	_
17	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	regard	regard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	living	living	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	beings	being	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	frequented	frequent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
28	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
29	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	fly	fly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	still	still	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	wears	wear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	gauzy	gauzy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	cut	cut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	favorite	favorite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	colors	color	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nsubj	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	stork	stork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
50	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	51	cop	_	_
51	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
53	with	with	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	conj	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
56	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	conj	_	_
57	for	for	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	stockings	stocking	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | present |  | the birch |  | there | still | with birch's white bark | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer birch=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hang** | gerund |  | leaves |  |  |  | loosely *property* | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient |
| 3 | **frequent** | past | the living beings | this spot |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **wear** | present | the fly | a gauzy dress of the same cut |  |  | still | with regard to the living beings | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dress=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | present | the favorite colors of the stork |  |  |  |  | white *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | the favorite colors of the stork *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for stockings | 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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