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title: The blossoms are often plucked," said Anthony; "the fruit is stolen… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The blossoms are often plucked," said Anthony; "the fruit is stolen and the branches broken without a thankful thought of their profusion and beauty. Who acts: Anthony. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, with its dependency tree and
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 168

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The blossoms are often plucked," said Anthony; "the fruit is stolen and the branches broken without a thankful thought of their profusion and beauty.

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**Who acts:** Anthony · **What happens:** pluck, say, steal, break, think · **To what, where:** blossoms, fruit, branches, profusion · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Anthony), 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:pg27200:128:168
# text = The blossoms are often plucked," said Anthony; "the fruit is stolen and the branches broken without a thankful thought of their profusion and beauty.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	often	often	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	plucked	pluck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Anthony	Anthony	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	stolen	steal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	ccomp	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	without	without	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	thankful	thankful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	profusion	profusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pluck** | present · passive |  | the blossoms |  |  |  | often *property* | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Anthony |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **steal** | present · passive |  | the fruit |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary branch=Theme |
| 4 | **break** | participle |  | the branches *not said here* |  |  |  | without a thankful thought of branches's profusion and beauty | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **think** |  |  | branches's profusion and beauty |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=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:** «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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