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title: And during their whole flight the Elder Tree smelt so sweet and odor… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And during their whole flight the Elder Tree smelt so sweet and odorous; he remarked the roses and the fresh beeches, but the Elder Tree had a more wondrous fragrance, for its flowers hung on the breast of the little maiden; and there, too, did he often lay his head during the flight. Who acts: Elde
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 111

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And during their whole flight the Elder Tree smelt so sweet and odorous; he remarked the roses and the fresh beeches, but the Elder Tree had a more wondrous fragrance, for its flowers hung on the breast of the little maiden; and there, too, did he often lay his head during the flight.

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**Who acts:** Elder Tree, tree · **What happens:** smelt, remark, have, hang, lie · **To what, where:** roses, wondrous fragrance, flowers, breast, head

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Elder Tree, 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:pg1597:17:111
# text = And during their whole flight the Elder Tree smelt so sweet and odorous; he remarked the roses and the fresh beeches, but the Elder Tree had a more wondrous fragrance, for its flowers hung on the breast of the little maiden; and there, too, did he often lay his head during the flight.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	during	during	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Elder	Elder	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Tree	Tree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	smelt	smelt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	odorous	odorous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	remarked	remark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	beeches	beech	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	Elder	Elder	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Tree	Tree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	31	advmod	_	_
31	wondrous	wondrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	fragrance	fragrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
37	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	acl	_	_
38	on	on	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	47	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
49	too	too	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
51	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
52	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
53	often	often	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
54	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
55	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
56	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obj	_	_
57	during	during	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smelt** | past | the Elder Tree |  |  |  | during sparks's whole flight |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **remark** *speech: assert* | past | tree | the roses and the fresh beeches |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent rose=Topic |
| 3 | **have** | past | the Elder Tree | a wondrous fragrance |  |  |  | for hand's flowers | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fragrance=Patient |
| 4 | **hang** | participle |  | hand's flowers *not said here* |  | the breast of the little maiden |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on breast=Location |
| 5 | **lie** | past · do-support | tree | tree's head |  |  | during the flight | often *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=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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