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title: “Rejoice in thy vigorous growth, and in the fresh life that moveth w… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Rejoice in thy vigorous growth, and in the fresh life that moveth within thee!” Who acts: you, fresh life, thy. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 31

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“Rejoice in thy vigorous growth, and in the fresh life that moveth within thee!”

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**Who acts:** you, fresh life, thy · **What happens:** rejoice, move, grow · **To what, where:** vigorous growth

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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 (you, fresh life, thy), 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:pg1597:10:31
# text = “Rejoice in thy vigorous growth, and in the fresh life that moveth within thee!”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Rejoice	rejoice	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	vigorous	vigorous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	moveth	move	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	within	within	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rejoice** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | thy vigorous growth |  | in the fresh life | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **move** *in a quote* | present | the fresh life |  |  |  |  | within thee | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** *in a quote* |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom growth «process intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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