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title: The blooming lychnis exhaled sweet odours. — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The blooming lychnis exhaled sweet odours. Who acts: blooming lychnis. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ninth Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ninth Evening, sentence 7

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The blooming lychnis exhaled sweet odours.

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**Who acts:** blooming lychnis · **What happens:** bloom, exhale · **To what, where:** sweet odours

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ninth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blooming lychnis), 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:pg27200:100:7
# text = The blooming lychnis exhaled sweet odours.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	blooming	bloom	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	lychnis	lychnis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	exhaled	exhale	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	odours	odour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bloom** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **exhale** | past | the blooming lychnis | sweet odours |  |  |  |  | vn exhale-40.1.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent odour=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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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