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title: You know, this plant has no blossom; but it is sweetness all over,--… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: You know, this plant has no blossom; but it is sweetness all over,--full of fragrance from head to foot, with the scent of a flower in every leaf. Who acts: You, plant. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Butterfly, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Butterfly, sentence 37

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You know, this plant has no blossom; but it is sweetness all over,--full of fragrance from head to foot, with the scent of a flower in every leaf.

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**Who acts:** You, plant · **What happens:** know, have, be, scent · **To what, where:** blossom, sweetness, flower

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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 (You, plant), 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:pg27200:15:37
# text = You know, this plant has no blossom; but it is sweetness all over,--full of fragrance from head to foot, with the scent of a flower in every leaf.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	blossom	blossom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	sweetness	sweetness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
14	all	all	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	over	over	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	parataxis	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	fragrance	fragrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	scent	scent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	34	det	_	_
34	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **have** | present | this plant | no blossom |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blossom=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | plant | sweetness and the scent of a flower in every leaf |  |  |  | over *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **scent** |  |  | a flower in every leaf |  |  |  |  | nom scent «cognition 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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