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description: The East Wind gave her the palm-leaf, on which was written the history of the phoenix; and her eyes sparkled with joy. Who acts: East Wind, eyes. 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 cla
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 176

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The East Wind gave her the palm-leaf, on which was written the history of the phoenix; and her eyes sparkled with joy.

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**Who acts:** East Wind, eyes · **What happens:** give, write, sparkle · **To what, where:** palm leaf, countenance, history

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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 (East Wind, eyes), 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:pg27200:140:176
# text = The East Wind gave her the palm-leaf, on which was written the history of the phoenix; and her eyes sparkled with joy.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Wind	Wind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	palm	palm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obl	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	phoenix	phoenix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	sparkled	sparkle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | the East Wind | the palm leaf | countenance |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient leaf=Theme |
| 2 | **write** | past · passive | the East Wind *not said here* | the history of the phoenix |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: history=Theme on which=Destination |
| 3 | **sparkle** | participle | countenance's eyes |  |  |  |  | with joy | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with joy=Theme |

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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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