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title: How beautiful and fresh it was out among the rose-bushes, which seem… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: How beautiful and fresh it was out among the rose-bushes, which seemed as if they would never leave off blooming. Who acts: sun, beautiful rose bushes, children. 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
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 38

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How beautiful and fresh it was out among the rose-bushes, which seemed as if they would never leave off blooming.

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**Who acts:** sun, beautiful rose bushes, children · **What happens:** be, seem, not leave off, bloom

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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 (sun, beautiful rose bushes, children), 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:pg27200:171:38
# text = How beautiful and fresh it was out among the rose-bushes, which seemed as if they would never leave off blooming.
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
7	out	out	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
8	among	among	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
17	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
22	off	off	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	blooming	bloom	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | sun |  |  |  |  | among the beautiful rose bushes; out *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **seem** | past | the beautiful rose bushes |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **not** **leave off** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | children *= child* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **bloom** | gerund | children *= child* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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