--- title: Yes, the blossom unfolded itself, and then burst and fell, and an ev… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Yes, the blossom unfolded itself, and then burst and fell, and an evil vapor arose from it, blinding the sight, leading astray the fancy; the firework of the senses went out, and it became dark. Who acts: blossom, evil vapor, firework. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blossom, evil vapor, firework), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:151:144 # text = Yes, the blossom unfolded itself, and then burst and fell, and an evil vapor arose from it, blinding the sight, leading astray the fancy; the firework of the senses went out, and it became dark. 1 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 blossom blossom NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 unfolded unfold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 10 advmod _ _ 10 burst burst VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 evil evil ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 vapor vapor NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 arose arise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 19 from from ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 blinding blind VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 leading lead VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 conj _ _ 27 astray astray ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 fancy fancy NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ; ; PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 firework firework NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 senses sens NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nmod _ _ 36 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 37 out out ADP RP _ 36 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ _ 42 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **unfold** | past | the blossom | blossom | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent itself=Patient | | 2 | **burst** | past | | | | | then | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **fall** | past | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **arise** | past | a evil vapor | | | blossom | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **blind** | gerund | a evil vapor *not said here* | the sight | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **lead** | gerund | a evil vapor *not said here* | the astray fancy | | | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fancy=Theme | | 7 | **go out** | past | the firework of the senses | | | | | | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **become** | past | blossom | | | | | dark *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 143](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/151/143/) - next →: [sentence 145](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/151/145/) - ↑ back to [The Psyche](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/151/)