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title: But every flower stood in the sunshine, and dreamed its own fairy ta… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But every flower stood in the sunshine, and dreamed its own fairy tale or its own story: and they all told her very many things, but not one knew anything of Kay. Who acts: flower, flowers, one, earth. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 2, with its depende
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 68

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But every flower stood in the sunshine, and dreamed its own fairy tale or its own story: and they all told her very many things, but not one knew anything of Kay.

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**Who acts:** flower, flowers, one, earth · **What happens:** stand, dream, tell, know · **To what, where:** sunshine, own fairy tale, many things, STORY, anything · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flower, flowers, one, earth), 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:pg1597:12:68
# text = But every flower stood in the sunshine, and dreamed its own fairy tale or its own story: and they all told her very many things, but not one knew anything of Kay.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	dreamed	dream	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
12	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	advmod	_	_
23	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	iobj	_	_
25	very	very	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nsubj	_	_
32	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	parataxis	_	_
33	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	32	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Kay	Kay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | every flower |  |  | the sunshine |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sunshine=Location |
| 2 | **dream** | past | every flower *not said here* | earth's own fairy tale or earth's own story |  |  |  |  | vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Topic |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | flowers *= flower* | many things | STORY |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient thing=Topic |
| 4 | **know** | past | one | anything |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus |
| 5 | **tell** |  | earth |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication 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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