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title: "Close your flowers and bend your leaves," said the old willow-tree. " — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Close your flowers and bend your leaves," said the old willow-tree. " Who acts: you, old willow tree. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Buckwheat, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Buckwheat, sentence 21

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"Close your flowers and bend your leaves," said the old willow-tree. "

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**Who acts:** you, old willow tree · **What happens:** close, bend, say · **To what, where:** flowers, leaves · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Buckwheat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, old willow tree), 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:pg27200:14:21
# text = "Close your flowers and bend your leaves," said the old willow-tree. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Close	close	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	bend	bend	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	willow	willow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **close** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | your flowers |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient |
| 2 | **bend** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | your leaves |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent leaf=Material |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the old willow tree |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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