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title: It has been raised from only a little sprig of myrtle that you gave… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It has been raised from only a little sprig of myrtle that you gave me on the day after my betrothal, and from which I was to make my own bridal bouquet when a year had passed: but that day never came; the eyes were closed which were to have been my light and joy through life. Who acts: you, I, year
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 150

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It has been raised from only a little sprig of myrtle that you gave me on the day after my betrothal, and from which I was to make my own bridal bouquet when a year had passed: but that day never came; the eyes were closed which were to have been my light and joy through life.

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**Who acts:** you, I, year, my · **What happens:** raise, give, be, pass, not come, close · **To what, where:** tree, little sprig, myrtle, me, eyes, light

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, year, my), 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:pg27200:13:150
# text = It has been raised from only a little sprig of myrtle that you gave me on the day after my betrothal, and from which I was to make my own bridal bouquet when a year had passed: but that day never came; the eyes were closed which were to have been my light and joy through life.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	raised	raise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	sprig	sprig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	myrtle	myrtle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obj	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	iobj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	after	after	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	betrothal	betrothal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	obl	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
30	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
31	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	bridal	bridal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	bouquet	bouquet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
34	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	38	advmod	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
37	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	44	punct	_	_
40	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
41	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	42	det	_	_
42	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl:unmarked	_	_
43	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	44	advmod	_	_
44	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	49	punct	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nsubj:pass	_	_
48	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	aux:pass	_	_
49	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
50	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	56	nsubj	_	_
51	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	cop	_	_
52	to	to	PART	TO	_	56	mark	_	_
53	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	56	aux	_	_
54	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	56	cop	_	_
55	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
56	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	parataxis	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
58	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	conj	_	_
59	through	through	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
60	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **raise** | present · perfect · passive |  | tree |  | a little sprig of myrtle |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme from sprig=Destination |
| 2 | **give** | past | you | myrtle | me |  | day |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient that=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | I |  |  |  |  | make *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **pass** | past · perfect | a year |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **come** | past |  |  |  |  | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **close** | past · passive |  | the eyes |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 7 | **is a** | past · perfect |  | my light and joy |  | life |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **betroth** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom betrothal «communication transitive»: poss=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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