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title: Yes, it was delightful; and the little maiden showed the boy everyth… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Yes, it was delightful; and the little maiden showed the boy everything; and the Elder Tree still was fragrant, and the red flag, with the white cross, was still waving: the flag under which the old seaman in the New Booths had sailed. Who acts: violin, little maiden, Elder Tree, red flag. A sentenc
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 129

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Yes, it was delightful; and the little maiden showed the boy everything; and the Elder Tree still was fragrant, and the red flag, with the white cross, was still waving: the flag under which the old seaman in the New Booths had sailed.

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**Who acts:** violin, little maiden, Elder Tree, red flag · **What happens:** be, show, wave, sail · **To what, where:** everything, boy, old seaman, flag

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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 (violin, little maiden, Elder Tree, red flag), 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:pg1597:17:129
# text = Yes, it was delightful; and the little maiden showed the boy everything; and the Elder Tree still was fragrant, and the red flag, with the white cross, was still waving: the flag under which the old seaman in the New Booths had sailed.
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	delightful	delightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Elder	Elder	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Tree	Tree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	still	still	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	fragrant	fragrant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	cross	cross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	still	still	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	waving	wave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
40	under	under	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	50	obl	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	seaman	seaman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj:pass	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	New	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	Booths	Booth	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	44	nmod	_	_
49	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
50	sailed	sail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | violin |  |  |  |  | delightful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **show** | past | the little maiden | everything | the boy |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient everything=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | past | the Elder Tree |  |  |  | still | fragrant *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **wave** | past · progressive | the red flag and the white cross |  |  |  | still |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **sail** | past · perfect · passive |  | the old seaman in the New Booths |  | the flag |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Trajectory |

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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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