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title: After all they are ugly roses, just like the box in which they stand… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: After all they are ugly roses, just like the box in which they stand," and then he kicked the boxes with his foot, and pulled off the two roses. Who acts: roses, glass. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, with its dependency tree 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 48

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After all they are ugly roses, just like the box in which they stand," and then he kicked the boxes with his foot, and pulled off the two roses.

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**Who acts:** roses, glass · **What happens:** be, stand, kick, pull off · **To what, where:** ugly roses, box, boxes, two roses

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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 (roses, glass), 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:pg27200:171:48
# text = After all they are ugly roses, just like the box in which they stand," and then he kicked the boxes with his foot, and pulled off the two roses.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	obl	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	just	just	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obl	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	stand	stand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	kicked	kick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	boxes	box	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
30	off	off	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 a** | present | roses *= rose* | ugly roses |  |  | after all | like the box | tree rules |
| 2 | **stand** | present | roses *= rose* |  |  | the box |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in which=Location |
| 3 | **kick** *in a quote* | past | glass | the boxes |  |  | then | with glass's foot | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent box=Patient with foot=Instrument |
| 4 | **pull off** *in a quote* | participle | glass *not said here* | the two roses |  |  |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rose=Eventuality |

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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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