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title: Many flowers and trees have withered this night; Death will soon com… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Many flowers and trees have withered this night; Death will soon come and plant them over again! Who acts: Death. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 40

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Many flowers and trees have withered this night; Death will soon come and plant them over again!

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**Who acts:** Death · **What happens:** wither, come, plant over · **To what, where:** Many flowers, trees

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Death), 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:pg1597:21:40
# text = Many flowers and trees have withered this night; Death will soon come and plant them over again!
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	withered	wither	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	Death	Death	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
13	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	plant	plant	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	over	over	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
18	again	again	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wither** | present · perfect · passive |  | Many flowers and trees |  |  | night |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | future | Death |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **plant over** | infinitive | Death *not said here* | trees *= tree* |  |  | again |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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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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