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title: And the Tree beheld all the beauty of the flowers, and the freshness… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And the Tree beheld all the beauty of the flowers, and the freshness in the garden; he beheld himself, and wished he had remained in his dark corner in the loft; he thought of his first youth in the wood, of the merry Christmas-eve, and of the little Mice who had listened with so much pleasure to th
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 200

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And the Tree beheld all the beauty of the flowers, and the freshness in the garden; he beheld himself, and wished he had remained in his dark corner in the loft; he thought of his first youth in the wood, of the merry Christmas-eve, and of the little Mice who had listened with so much pleasure to the story of Humpy-Dumpy.

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**Who acts:** Tree · **What happens:** behold, wish, remain, think, listen · **To what, where:** beauty, Tree, dark corner · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tree), 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:pg1597:10:200
# text = And the Tree beheld all the beauty of the flowers, and the freshness in the garden; he beheld himself, and wished he had remained in his dark corner in the loft; he thought of his first youth in the wood, of the merry Christmas-eve, and of the little Mice who had listened with so much pleasure to the story of Humpy-Dumpy.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Tree	Tree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	beheld	behold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	freshness	freshness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	beheld	behold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	ccomp	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	loft	loft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
40	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	41	amod	_	_
41	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
48	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
49	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	49	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	eve	eve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
56	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	Mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	60	obl	_	_
58	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	60	nsubj	_	_
59	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	60	aux	_	_
60	listened	listen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	37	conj	_	_
61	with	with	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
62	so	so	ADV	RB	_	63	advmod	_	_
63	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	64	amod	_	_
64	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obl	_	_
65	to	to	ADP	IN	_	67	case	_	_
66	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	67	det	_	_
67	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	nmod	_	_
68	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	71	mark	_	_
69	Humpy	humpy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	71	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	69	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	Dumpy	dumpy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	67	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
72	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **behold** | past | the Tree | all beauty of the flowers |  |  |  | the freshness in the garden *obl* | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beauty=Stimulus |
| 2 | **behold** | past | Tree | Tree |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus |
| 3 | **wish** | past | Tree *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **remain** | past · perfect | Tree |  |  | Tree's dark corner in the loft |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in corner=Location |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Tree |  |  |  |  | of Tree's first youth in the wood | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **listen** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | of the little Mice; with much pleasure to the story | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent of mouse=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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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