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title: The heather was in blossom, and the juniper-bushes and fresh oak sap… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The heather was in blossom, and the juniper-bushes and fresh oak saplings rose like bouquets from the earth. Who acts: heather, juniper bushes. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 79

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The heather was in blossom, and the juniper-bushes and fresh oak saplings rose like bouquets from the earth.

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**Who acts:** heather, juniper bushes · **What happens:** be, rose · **To what, where:** blossom, earth

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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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heather, juniper bushes), 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:pg27200:159:79
# text = The heather was in blossom, and the juniper-bushes and fresh oak saplings rose like bouquets from the earth.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	heather	heather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	blossom	blossom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	juniper	juniper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	saplings	sapling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
16	rose	rose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	bouquets	bouquet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	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 heather |  |  | blossom |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **rose** | present | the juniper bushes and fresh oak saplings |  |  | the earth |  | like bouquets | tree rules |

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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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