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title: The pea-blossom pleased him most of all; she was white and red, grac… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The pea-blossom pleased him most of all; she was white and red, graceful and slender, and belonged to those domestic maidens who have a pretty appearance, and can yet be useful in the kitchen. Who acts: wind, domestic maidens. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen,
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Butterfly, sentence 26

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The pea-blossom pleased him most of all; she was white and red, graceful and slender, and belonged to those domestic maidens who have a pretty appearance, and can yet be useful in the kitchen.

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**Who acts:** wind, domestic maidens · **What happens:** be, belong, have · **To what, where:** pretty appearance, kitchen

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Butterfly. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind, domestic maidens), 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:pg27200:15:26
# text = The pea-blossom pleased him most of all; she was white and red, graceful and slender, and belonged to those domestic maidens who have a pretty appearance, and can yet be useful in the kitchen.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	pea	pea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	blossom	blossom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
7	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	graceful	graceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	slender	slender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	belonged	belong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
25	domestic	domestic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
34	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
35	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
36	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	cop	_	_
37	useful	useful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | wind |  |  |  |  | white *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | wind *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | wind *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **belong** | past |  |  |  |  |  | to that domestic maidens | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **have** | present | that domestic maidens | a pretty appearance |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Patient |
| 6 | **is** | can |  |  |  | the kitchen | yet | useful *property* | 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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