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title: Have you ever given yourself an account why you bloomed, and how you… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Have you ever given yourself an account why you bloomed, and how your blooming comes about--why just in that way and in no other?" Who acts: you, blooming. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree, sentence 24

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Have you ever given yourself an account why you bloomed, and how your blooming comes about--why just in that way and in no other?"

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**Who acts:** you, blooming · **What happens:** give, bloom, come about · **To what, where:** account, yourself, way

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, blooming), 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:pg27200:157:24
# text = Have you ever given yourself an account why you bloomed, and how your blooming comes about--why just in that way and in no other?"
1	Have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
4	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	iobj	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	bloomed	bloom	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	blooming	blooming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
17	about	about	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
20	just	just	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	27	det	_	_
27	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present · perfect | you | a account | yourself |  | ever |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Recipient account=Theme |
| 2 | **bloom** | past | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come about** | present | your blooming |  |  | that way |  | about *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=Location |

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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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