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title: It was the tree of knowledge of good and evil, from which Adam and E… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It was the tree of knowledge of good and evil, from which Adam and Eve had plucked and eaten the forbidden fruit, and from each leaf trickled a bright red dewdrop, as if the tree were weeping tears of blood for their sin. " Who acts: tree. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 186

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It was the tree of knowledge of good and evil, from which Adam and Eve had plucked and eaten the forbidden fruit, and from each leaf trickled a bright red dewdrop, as if the tree were weeping tears of blood for their sin. "

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**Who acts:** tree · **What happens:** be, pluck, eat, forbid, trickle, weep · **To what, where:** tree, Adam, forbidden fruit, bright red dewdrop, leaf, tears

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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 (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:pg27200:140:186
# text = It was the tree of knowledge of good and evil, from which Adam and Eve had plucked and eaten the forbidden fruit, and from each leaf trickled a bright red dewdrop, as if the tree were weeping tears of blood for their sin. "
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obl	_	_
14	Adam	Adam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	Eve	Eve	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	plucked	pluck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	forbidden	forbid	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
23	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
28	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
29	trickled	trickle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	dewdrop	dewdrop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
35	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
36	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
39	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	weeping	weep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
41	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
44	for	for	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	sin	sin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
48	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | tree | the tree |  |  |  | of knowledge of good | tree rules |
| 2 | **pluck** | past · perfect · passive |  | Adam and Eve |  | the tree |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from which=Source |
| 3 | **eat** | participle |  | the forbidden fruit |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient |
| 4 | **forbid** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 5 | **trickle** | past |  | a bright red dewdrop |  | each leaf |  |  | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent dewdrop=Theme from leaf=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **weep** | past · progressive | the tree | tears of blood |  |  |  | for tears's sin | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tear=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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