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title: He thought of the plenteousness of the southern fruit, of the red po… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He thought of the plenteousness of the southern fruit, of the red pomegranate flowers, of the humming, buzzing, and toiling in the great beehive of a city he had seen; but home is the best place after all, and Jurgen's home was Denmark. Who acts: Jurgen, humming, home. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 77

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He thought of the plenteousness of the southern fruit, of the red pomegranate flowers, of the humming, buzzing, and toiling in the great beehive of a city he had seen; but home is the best place after all, and Jurgen's home was Denmark.

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**Who acts:** Jurgen, humming, home · **What happens:** think, buzz, toil, see, be · **To what, where:** great beehive, city, best place, Denmark · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Jurgen, humming, home), 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:pg27200:161:77
# text = He thought of the plenteousness of the southern fruit, of the red pomegranate flowers, of the humming, buzzing, and toiling in the great beehive of a city he had seen; but home is the best place after all, and Jurgen's home was Denmark.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	plenteousness	plenteousness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	pomegranate	pomegranate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	humming	humming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	buzzing	buzz	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	toiling	toil	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	beehive	beehive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
36	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
37	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
38	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	41	amod	_	_
41	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
42	after	after	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
46	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	's	's	PART	POS	_	46	case	_	_
48	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
49	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	cop	_	_
50	Denmark	Denmark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Jurgen |  |  |  |  | of the plenteousness of the southern fruit | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **buzz** | gerund | the humming *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **toil** | gerund | the humming *not said here* |  |  | the great beehive of a city |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in beehive=Trajectory |
| 4 | **see** | past · perfect | Jurgen | a city *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer city=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is a** | present | home | the best place |  |  | after all |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is a** | past | Jurgen's home | Denmark |  |  |  |  | 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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