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title: The flowering lime trees could not breathe refreshing fragrance into… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The flowering lime trees could not breathe refreshing fragrance into that abode, where everything was dark and mouldy. Who acts: flowering lime trees, everything. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, with its dependency tree a
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 33

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The flowering lime trees could not breathe refreshing fragrance into that abode, where everything was dark and mouldy.

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**Who acts:** flowering lime trees, everything · **What happens:** not breathe, refresh, be · **To what, where:** fragrance, abode

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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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flowering lime trees, everything), 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:pg27200:161:33
# text = The flowering lime trees could not breathe refreshing fragrance into that abode, where everything was dark and mouldy.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	flowering	flowering	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	lime	lime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	breathe	breathe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	refreshing	refresh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
9	fragrance	fragrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	abode	abode	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
15	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	mouldy	mouldy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **breathe** | could | the flowering lime trees |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **refresh** | gerund | the flowering lime trees *not said here* | fragrance |  | that abode |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fragrance=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | past | everything |  |  |  |  | dark *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | everything *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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