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title: The flowers seemed like flames of the most gorgeous colors, and amon… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The flowers seemed like flames of the most gorgeous colors, and among the flowers stood a beautiful slender maiden. Who acts: flowers, gorgeous colors. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 23

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The flowers seemed like flames of the most gorgeous colors, and among the flowers stood a beautiful slender maiden.

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**Who acts:** flowers, gorgeous colors · **What happens:** seem, stand, flame · **To what, where:** beautiful slender maiden, flowers

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flowers, gorgeous colors), 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:pg27200:165:23
# text = The flowers seemed like flames of the most gorgeous colors, and among the flowers stood a beautiful slender maiden.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	9	advmod	_	_
9	gorgeous	gorgeous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	colors	color	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	among	among	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
16	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	slender	slender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **seem** | past | the flowers |  |  |  |  | like flames of the gorgeous colors | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past | the flowers *not said here* | a beautiful slender maiden |  | the flowers |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent maiden=Theme among flower=Destination |
| 3 | **flame** |  | the gorgeous colors |  |  |  |  |  | nom flame «process intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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