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title: At last, however, the spring came, and the sun shone warm again, and… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: At last, however, the spring came, and the sun shone warm again, and then two little green leaves sprouted forth in the pot. Who acts: spring, sun, two little green leaves. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, with its dependency tree
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 73

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At last, however, the spring came, and the sun shone warm again, and then two little green leaves sprouted forth in the pot.

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**Who acts:** spring, sun, two little green leaves · **What happens:** come, shine, sprout · **To what, where:** last, pot

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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 (spring, sun, two little green leaves), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:7852`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:128:73
# text = At last, however, the spring came, and the sun shone warm again, and then two little green leaves sprouted forth in the pot.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	however	however	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
14	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
15	again	again	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
19	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	sprouted	sprout	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
24	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the spring |  |  | last |  | however *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location |
| 2 | **shine** | past | the sun |  |  |  | again | warm *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **sprout** | past | two little green leaves |  |  | the pot | then | forth *property* | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pot=Location |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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