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title: On the rose-bush grew a flower, more beautiful than them all, and to… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: On the rose-bush grew a flower, more beautiful than them all, and to her the nightingale sung of his woes; but the rose remained silent, not even a dewdrop lay like a tear of sympathy on her leaves. Who acts: rose bush, rose. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Rose From Homer's Grave, sentence 5

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On the rose-bush grew a flower, more beautiful than them all, and to her the nightingale sung of his woes; but the rose remained silent, not even a dewdrop lay like a tear of sympathy on her leaves.

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**Who acts:** rose bush, rose · **What happens:** grow, sing, remain, lay · **To what, where:** flower, nightingale, dewdrop, leaves

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Rose From Homer's Grave. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rose bush, rose), 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:pg27200:156:5
# text = On the rose-bush grew a flower, more beautiful than them all, and to her the nightingale sung of his woes; but the rose remained silent, not even a dewdrop lay like a tear of sympathy on her leaves.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
11	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
12	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
21	sung	sing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	woes	woe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
30	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
33	even	even	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	dewdrop	dewdrop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
36	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	parataxis	_	_
37	like	like	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	tear	tear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	sympathy	sympathy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
42	on	on	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | the rose bush | a flower |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location flower=Theme |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | participle |  | bush's nightingale *not said here* |  |  |  | of merchant's woes | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **remain** | past | the rose |  |  |  |  | silent *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **lay** | present |  | a dewdrop |  | bush's leaves |  | like a tear of sympathy | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on leaf=Destination |

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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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