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title: In the garden could be seen the most singular flowers, with pretty s… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In the garden could be seen the most singular flowers, with pretty silver bells tied to them, which tinkled so that every one who passed could not help noticing the flowers. Who acts: pretty silver, one. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale, with 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 5

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In the garden could be seen the most singular flowers, with pretty silver bells tied to them, which tinkled so that every one who passed could not help noticing the flowers.

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**Who acts:** pretty silver, one · **What happens:** see, bell, tie, tinkle, pass, not help · **To what, where:** singular flowers, garden, flowers

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pretty silver, one), 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:pg27200:125:5
# text = In the garden could be seen the most singular flowers, with pretty silver bells tied to them, which tinkled so that every one who passed could not help noticing the flowers.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	9	advmod	_	_
9	singular	singular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	bells	bell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
16	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	xcomp	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	tinkled	tinkle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
22	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	30	mark	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	fixed	_	_
24	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
28	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
31	noticing	notice	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	xcomp	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | could · passive |  | the singular flowers |  | the garden |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: flower=Stimulus |
| 2 | **bell** | present | pretty silver |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tie** | participle | pretty silver *not said here* |  | flowers *= flower* |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to they=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **tinkle** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **pass** | past | every one |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **help** | could | every one |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 7 | **notice** *not said to happen* | gerund | every one *not said here* | the flowers |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer flower=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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