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title: "How beautifully the roses bloom before the ruined house," exclaimed… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "How beautifully the roses bloom before the ruined house," exclaimed a passer-by. " Who acts: roses, passer. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 110

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"How beautifully the roses bloom before the ruined house," exclaimed a passer-by. "

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**Who acts:** roses, passer · **What happens:** bloom, ruin, exclaim · **To what, where:** ruined house · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (roses, passer), 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:pg27200:124:110
# text = "How beautifully the roses bloom before the ruined house," exclaimed a passer-by. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	bloom	bloom	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	before	before	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	ruined	ruin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
13	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	passer	passer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bloom** *in a quote* | present | the roses |  |  | the ruined house |  | beautifully *property* | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before house=Location |
| 2 | **ruin** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | a passer |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |

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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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