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title: She had entrusted the four green leaves from the Tree of the Sun to… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She had entrusted the four green leaves from the Tree of the Sun to the winds, as letters of greeting to her brothers, and she had full confidence that the leaves would reach them. Who acts: girl, leaves. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Sto
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 226

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She had entrusted the four green leaves from the Tree of the Sun to the winds, as letters of greeting to her brothers, and she had full confidence that the leaves would reach them.

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**Who acts:** girl, leaves · **What happens:** entrust, have, reach, letter · **To what, where:** girl, full confidence, brothers, greeting

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, leaves), 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:pg27200:143:226
# text = She had entrusted the four green leaves from the Tree of the Sun to the winds, as letters of greeting to her brothers, and she had full confidence that the leaves would reach them.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	entrusted	entrust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Tree	Tree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	greeting	greeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
29	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	confidence	confidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
34	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
36	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **entrust** | past · perfect · passive |  | girl |  |  |  | to the winds; as letters of greeting to girl's brothers | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | girl | full confidence |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent confidence=Patient |
| 3 | **reach** | would | the leaves | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **letter** |  |  | greeting to girl's brothers |  |  |  |  | nom letter «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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