--- title: "Roses bloom and cease to be, But we shall the Christ-child see." — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "Roses bloom and cease to be, But we shall the Christ-child see." Who acts: Roses, we. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/171/35/) [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/) / [A Little Boy and a Little Girl](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/171/) / 35 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 35 "Roses bloom and cease to be, But we shall the Christ-child see." **Who acts:** Roses, we · **What happens:** bloom, cease, be, see This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Roses, we), 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:pg27200:171:35 # text = "Roses bloom and cease to be, But we shall the Christ-child see." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Roses rose NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 bloom bloom VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 cease cease VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 9 But but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 10 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 11 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 13 Christ Christ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bloom** *in a quote* | present | Roses | | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **cease** *in a quote* | present | Roses *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **be** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Roses *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **see** *in a quote* | shall | we | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/171/34/) - next →: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/171/36/) - ↑ back to [A Little Boy and a Little Girl](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/171/)