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title: How glorious it is to live and to bloom, to see old friends again, a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: How glorious it is to live and to bloom, to see old friends again, and happy faces every day. Who acts: appointment. 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 207

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How glorious it is to live and to bloom, to see old friends again, and happy faces every day.

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**Who acts:** appointment · **What happens:** be, bloom, see · **To what, where:** old friends

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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 (appointment), 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:pg27200:124:207
# text = How glorious it is to live and to bloom, to see old friends again, and happy faces every day.
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	glorious	glorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	bloom	bloom	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	again	again	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
20	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | appointment |  |  |  |  | happy faces  every day *obl*; live *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bloom** | to-infinitive | appointment *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | appointment *not said here* | old friends |  |  | again |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer friend=Stimulus |

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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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