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title: And the Elderbush sent forth a strong odour in the sun, that was jus… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And the Elderbush sent forth a strong odour in the sun, that was just about to set, and shone right in the old people's faces. Who acts: Elderbush. 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 80

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And the Elderbush sent forth a strong odour in the sun, that was just about to set, and shone right in the old people's faces.

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**Who acts:** Elderbush · **What happens:** send, be, shine · **To what, where:** strong odour, sun, faces

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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 (Elderbush), 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:pg1597:17:80
# text = And the Elderbush sent forth a strong odour in the sun, that was just about to set, and shone right in the old people's faces.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Elderbush	Elderbush	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	odour	odour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	obl	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
15	just	just	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	about	about	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	shone	shine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
22	right	right	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | the Elderbush | a strong odour |  | the sun |  | forth *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent odour=Theme in sun=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | past | the Elderbush *not said here* |  |  |  |  | that *obl*; about, set *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **shine** | participle | the Elderbush *not said here* |  |  | the old people's faces |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in face=Location |

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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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