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title: Birds, flowers, and festoons appeared intermingled in seeming confus… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Birds, flowers, and festoons appeared intermingled in seeming confusion. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 169

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Birds, flowers, and festoons appeared intermingled in seeming confusion.

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**What happens:** intermingle, seem · **To what, where:** festoons, confusion

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg27200:140:169
# text = Birds, flowers, and festoons appeared intermingled in seeming confusion.
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	festoons	festoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	intermingled	intermingle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
9	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	seeming	seem	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
11	confusion	confusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **intermingle** | past · passive |  | festoons |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **seem** | gerund |  | confusion |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme confusion=Attribute |

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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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