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title: "Our heavenly Father Himself has planted that pea, and made it grow… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Our heavenly Father Himself has planted that pea, and made it grow and flourish, to bring joy to you and hope to me, my blessed child," said the happy mother, and she smiled at the flower, as if it had been an angel from God. Who acts: heavenly Father, festival, happy mother, mother. A sentence of 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pea Blossom, sentence 46

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"Our heavenly Father Himself has planted that pea, and made it grow and flourish, to bring joy to you and hope to me, my blessed child," said the happy mother, and she smiled at the flower, as if it had been an angel from God.

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**Who acts:** heavenly Father, festival, happy mother, mother · **What happens:** plant, make, grow, flourish, bring, hope · **To what, where:** pea, festival, joy, you, happy mother, flower · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pea Blossom. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heavenly Father, festival, happy mother, mother), 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:pg27200:141:46
# text = "Our heavenly Father Himself has planted that pea, and made it grow and flourish, to bring joy to you and hope to me, my blessed child," said the happy mother, and she smiled at the flower, as if it had been an angel from God.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	heavenly	heavenly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	Himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	nmod	_	_
6	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	planted	plant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	pea	pea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	flourish	flourish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
20	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	hope	hope	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	blessed	blessed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
33	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	parataxis	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	smiled	smile	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
41	at	at	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
45	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
46	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
47	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
48	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
49	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	51	cop	_	_
50	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	angel	angel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
52	from	from	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plant** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Our heavenly Father  Father | pea |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** *in a quote* | past |  | festival |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **grow** *in a quote* | infinitive | festival *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **flourish** *in a quote* | infinitive | festival *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **bring** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | festival *not said here* | joy | you |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent joy=Theme to you=Destination |
| 6 | **hope** *in a quote* | present | festival *not said here* |  | the happy mother *= mother* |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the happy mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **smile** | past | mother |  |  | the flower |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | festival | a angel |  |  |  | from God | tree rules |

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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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