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title: It is warm and beautiful there; the fiery pomegranate flowers peep f… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It is warm and beautiful there; the fiery pomegranate flowers peep from among dark laurels; a cool refreshing breeze from the mountains blows over the orange gardens, over the Moorish halls with their golden cupolas and coloured walls. Who acts: sea, fiery pomegranate flowers, cool refreshing breeze
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 3

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It is warm and beautiful there; the fiery pomegranate flowers peep from among dark laurels; a cool refreshing breeze from the mountains blows over the orange gardens, over the Moorish halls with their golden cupolas and coloured walls.

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**Who acts:** sea, fiery pomegranate flowers, cool refreshing breeze · **What happens:** be, peep, refresh, blow · **To what, where:** orange gardens

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sea, fiery pomegranate flowers, cool refreshing breeze), 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:pg27200:158:3
# text = It is warm and beautiful there; the fiery pomegranate flowers peep from among dark laurels; a cool refreshing breeze from the mountains blows over the orange gardens, over the Moorish halls with their golden cupolas and coloured walls.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	pomegranate	pomegranate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	peep	peep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	among	among	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	laurels	laurel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	refreshing	refresh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	amod	_	_
21	breeze	breeze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	blows	blow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	over	over	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	over	over	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	Moorish	moorish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	halls	hall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
37	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	cupolas	cupola	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	coloured	coloured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | sea |  |  |  |  | warm *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | sea *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **peep** | present | the fiery pomegranate flowers |  |  |  |  | from dark laurels | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from laurel=Theme |
| 4 | **refresh** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **blow** | present | a cool refreshing breeze from the mountains |  |  | the orange gardens |  | over the Moorish halls with flowers's golden cupolas and coloured walls | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=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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