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title: In imagination he saw the heath blossom and become purple with rich… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In imagination he saw the heath blossom and become purple with rich juicy berries, and the elder-bushes and lime-trees at Norre Vosborg in flower. Who acts: Jurgen. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, with its dependency tree
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 36

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In imagination he saw the heath blossom and become purple with rich juicy berries, and the elder-bushes and lime-trees at Norre Vosborg in flower.

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**Who acts:** Jurgen · **What happens:** see, become · **To what, where:** heath blossom, imagination

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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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jurgen), 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:pg27200:160:36
# text = In imagination he saw the heath blossom and become purple with rich juicy berries, and the elder-bushes and lime-trees at Norre Vosborg in flower.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	imagination	imagination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	heath	heath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	blossom	blossom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
10	purple	purple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	juicy	juicy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	lime	lime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Norre	Norre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
27	Vosborg	Vosborg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Jurgen | the heath blossom |  | imagination |  | in flower | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blossom=Stimulus |
| 2 | **become** | infinitive | Jurgen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | purple *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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