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title: A Hun's Grave lies there, and the sloe and blackthorn grow luxuriant… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A Hun's Grave lies there, and the sloe and blackthorn grow luxuriantly among the stones. Who acts: Grave, sloe. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Seventh Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Seventh Evening, sentence 4

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A Hun's Grave lies there, and the sloe and blackthorn grow luxuriantly among the stones.

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**Who acts:** Grave, sloe · **What happens:** lie, grow · **To what, where:** stones

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Seventh Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grave, sloe), 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:pg27200:98:4
# text = A Hun's Grave lies there, and the sloe and blackthorn grow luxuriantly among the stones.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Hun	Hun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	Grave	Grave	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sloe	sloe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	blackthorn	blackthorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
14	luxuriantly	luxuriantly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	among	among	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | present | a Hun's Grave |  |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **grow** | present | the sloe and blackthorn |  |  | the stones |  | luxuriantly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among stone=Location |

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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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