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title: Then Gerda went to the buttercups that were glittering amongst the b… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Gerda went to the buttercups that were glittering amongst the bright green leaves. Who acts: Gerda, buttercups. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 111

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Then Gerda went to the buttercups that were glittering amongst the bright green leaves.

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**Who acts:** Gerda, buttercups · **What happens:** go, glitter · **To what, where:** buttercups, bright green leaves

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gerda, buttercups), 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:pg27200:172:111
# text = Then Gerda went to the buttercups that were glittering amongst the bright green leaves.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	buttercups	buttercup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	glittering	glitter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	amongst	amongst	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Gerda |  |  | the buttercups | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to buttercup=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **glitter** | past · progressive | the buttercups |  |  | the bright green leaves |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme amongst leaf=Location |

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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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