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title: The written leaf, the last farewell of the bridegroom to his bride,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The written leaf, the last farewell of the bridegroom to his bride, would only bring sorrow when once it reached her hands; but where were those hands, so soft and delicate, which had once spread the table-cloth on the fresh grass in the green wood, on the day of her betrothal? Who acts: written lea
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 78

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The written leaf, the last farewell of the bridegroom to his bride, would only bring sorrow when once it reached her hands; but where were those hands, so soft and delicate, which had once spread the table-cloth on the fresh grass in the green wood, on the day of her betrothal?

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**Who acts:** written leaf, leaf, bride · **What happens:** write, bring, reach, be, spread, betroth · **To what, where:** sorrow, hands, table cloth, fresh grass

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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 (written leaf, leaf, bride), 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:pg27200:13:78
# text = The written leaf, the last farewell of the bridegroom to his bride, would only bring sorrow when once it reached her hands; but where were those hands, so soft and delicate, which had once spread the table-cloth on the fresh grass in the green wood, on the day of her betrothal?
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	farewell	farewell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	only	only	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
18	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	22	mark	_	_
20	once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	30	advmod	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
30	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	delicate	delicate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	40	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
39	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	40	advmod	_	_
40	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	conj	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
42	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
45	on	on	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
54	on	on	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
57	of	of	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	59	nmod:poss	_	_
59	betrothal	betrothal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bring** | would | the written leaf | sorrow |  |  | day |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent sorrow=Theme |
| 3 | **reach** | past | leaf | bride's hands |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | that hands |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **spread** | past · perfect · passive |  | the table cloth |  | the fresh grass in the green wood |  | once *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **betroth** |  | bride |  |  |  |  |  | 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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