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title: The lion and the tiger, gentle and tame, were springing about like p… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The lion and the tiger, gentle and tame, were springing about like playful cats among the green bushes, whose perfume was like the fragrant blossom of the olive. Who acts: lion, perfume, fragrant blossom. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradis
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 171

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The lion and the tiger, gentle and tame, were springing about like playful cats among the green bushes, whose perfume was like the fragrant blossom of the olive.

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**Who acts:** lion, perfume, fragrant blossom · **What happens:** spring, be, perfume · **To what, where:** green bushes

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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: who acts (lion, perfume, fragrant blossom), 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:pg27200:140:171
# text = The lion and the tiger, gentle and tame, were springing about like playful cats among the green bushes, whose perfume was like the fragrant blossom of the olive.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tiger	tiger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	tame	tame	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	springing	spring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
13	about	about	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	playful	playful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	among	among	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	perfume	perfume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
25	like	like	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	fragrant	fragrant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	blossom	blossom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	olive	olive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spring** | past · progressive | the lion and the tiger |  |  | the green bushes |  | like playful cats; about *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among bush=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is** | past | the fragrant blossom's perfume |  |  |  |  | like the fragrant blossom; of the olive | tree rules |
| 3 | **perfume** |  | the fragrant blossom |  |  |  |  |  | nom perfume «cognition 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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