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title: The tree of knowledge no longer wept tears of blood, for the dewdrop… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The tree of knowledge no longer wept tears of blood, for the dewdrops shone like glittering stars. Who acts: tree, dewdrops. 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 229

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The tree of knowledge no longer wept tears of blood, for the dewdrops shone like glittering stars.

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**Who acts:** tree, dewdrops · **What happens:** weep, shine, glitter · **To what, where:** tears, stars

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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, dewdrops), 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:pg27200:140:229
# text = The tree of knowledge no longer wept tears of blood, for the dewdrops shone like glittering stars.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	no	no	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
7	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	dewdrops	dewdrop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	glittering	glitter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
18	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weep** | past | the tree of knowledge | tears of blood |  |  |  | long *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tear=Theme |
| 2 | **shine** | past | the dewdrops |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **glitter** | gerund | the dewdrops *not said here* | stars |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent star=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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