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title: “Oh, would it were always spring in the sweetly-smelling Danish beec… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Oh, would it were always spring in the sweetly-smelling Danish beech-forests!” Who acts: anemony. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 114

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“Oh, would it were always spring in the sweetly-smelling Danish beech-forests!”

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**Who acts:** anemony · **What happens:** be, smell · **To what, where:** spring, smelling Danish beech forests

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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 (anemony), 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:pg1597:17:114
# text = “Oh, would it were always spring in the sweetly-smelling Danish beech-forests!”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	8	advmod	_	_
8	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
11	sweetly	sweetly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	smelling	smell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	amod	_	_
14	Danish	danish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	beech	beech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | would | anemony | spring |  | the smelling Danish beech forests |  | always *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **smell** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=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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