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title: The lawn was as green as if each blade of grass was cleaned separate… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The lawn was as green as if each blade of grass was cleaned separately morning and evening. Who acts: lawn. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 53

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The lawn was as green as if each blade of grass was cleaned separately morning and evening.

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**Who acts:** lawn · **What happens:** be, clean · **To what, where:** blade

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lawn), 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:pg27200:155:53
# text = The lawn was as green as if each blade of grass was cleaned separately morning and evening.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lawn	lawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	as	as	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
8	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	blade	blade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	cleaned	clean	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
14	separately	separately	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	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 | the lawn |  |  |  |  | green *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **clean** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive |  | each blade of grass |  |  | morning | separately *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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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