--- title: "Come from your fragrant home, green thyme; Stretch your soft branch… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "Come from your fragrant home, green thyme; Stretch your soft branches, willow-tree; The months are bringing the sweet spring-time, When the lark in the sky sings joyfully. Who acts: you, months, lark. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man, with its d --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/169/116/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Snow Man](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/169/) / 116 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 116 "Come from your fragrant home, green thyme; Stretch your soft branches, willow-tree; The months are bringing the sweet spring-time, When the lark in the sky sings joyfully. **Who acts:** you, months, lark · **What happens:** come, stretch, bring, sing · **To what, where:** fragrant home, soft branches This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, months, lark), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:169:116 # text = "Come from your fragrant home, green thyme; Stretch your soft branches, willow-tree; The months are bringing the sweet spring-time, When the lark in the sky sings joyfully. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Come come VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 fragrant fragrant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 thyme thyme NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 Stretch stretch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 12 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 branches branch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 willow willow NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 20 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 22 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 bringing bring VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 25 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 26 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 30 When when SCONJ WRB _ 36 mark _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 lark lark NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 36 sings sing VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 37 joyfully joyfully ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | your fragrant home and green thyme | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from home=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **stretch** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | your soft branches willow tree | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent branch=Patient | | 3 | **bring** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the months | | | | time | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **sing** *speech: express* *in a quote* | present | the lark in the sky | | | | | joyfully *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/169/115/) - next →: [sentence 117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/169/117/) - ↑ back to [The Snow Man](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/169/)