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title: For the heart asks for fragrance, even when it is no longer young; a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: For the heart asks for fragrance, even when it is no longer young; and there is very little of that to be found in the dahlias or the dry chrysanthemums; therefore the butterfly turned to the mint on the ground. Who acts: fragrance, that, butterfly. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Ander
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Butterfly, sentence 36

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For the heart asks for fragrance, even when it is no longer young; and there is very little of that to be found in the dahlias or the dry chrysanthemums; therefore the butterfly turned to the mint on the ground.

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**Who acts:** fragrance, that, butterfly · **What happens:** ask, be, find, turn · **To what, where:** dahlias, ground

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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 (fragrance, that, butterfly), 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:pg27200:15:36
# text = For the heart asks for fragrance, even when it is no longer young; and there is very little of that to be found in the dahlias or the dry chrysanthemums; therefore the butterfly turned to the mint on the ground.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	fragrance	fragrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	even	even	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	no	no	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
14	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
18	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	very	very	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	nsubj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	advcl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	dahlias	dahlia	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	chrysanthemums	chrysanthemum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
34	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	mint	mint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	on	on	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present |  |  |  |  |  | for the heart; for fragrance | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | fragrance |  |  |  |  | long, young *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** | present | that |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **find** | to-infinitive · passive | that *not said here* |  |  | the dahlias or the dry chrysanthemums |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF» |
| 5 | **turn** | past | the butterfly |  |  | the ground |  | to the mint; therefore *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme to mint=Source on ground=Trajectory |

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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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