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title: They straggled wild over the paths, and the ragged branches grew up… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They straggled wild over the paths, and the ragged branches grew up among the boughs of the apple trees; here and there were a few roses still in bloom--not so fair as the queen of flowers generally appears, but still they had colour and scent too. Who acts: flowers, ragged branches, few roses. A se
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Evening, sentence 4

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They straggled wild over the paths, and the ragged branches grew up among the boughs of the apple trees; here and there were a few roses still in bloom--not so fair as the queen of flowers generally appears, but still they had colour and scent too.

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**Who acts:** flowers, ragged branches, few roses · **What happens:** straggle, grow up, be, appear, have · **To what, where:** paths, boughs, bloom, colour

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flowers, ragged branches, few 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:pg27200:94:4
# text = They straggled wild over the paths, and the ragged branches grew up among the boughs of the apple trees; here and there were a few roses still in bloom--not so fair as the queen of flowers generally appears, but still they had colour and scent too.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	straggled	straggle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	paths	path	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	ragged	ragged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	among	among	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	boughs	bough	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
22	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	25	expl	_	_
25	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
29	still	still	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	bloom	bloom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
34	so	so	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	acl:relcl	_	_
36	as	as	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	_
41	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	appears	appear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
44	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
45	still	still	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
46	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
48	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	scent	scent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	conj	_	_
51	too	too	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **straggle** | past | flowers *= flower* |  |  | the paths; here |  | wild *property* | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over path=Location |
| 2 | **grow up** | past | the ragged branches |  |  | the boughs of the apple trees |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among bough=Location |
| 3 | **be** | past | a few roses |  |  | bloom; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bloom=Location |
| 4 | **appear** | present | flowers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | generally *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **have** | past | flowers *= flower* | colour and scent |  |  | still |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient |

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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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