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title: But each flower, as it stood in the sunshine, dreamed only of its ow… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But each flower, as it stood in the sunshine, dreamed only of its own little fairy tale of history. Who acts: mistake, flower, history. 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 pragmat
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 64

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But each flower, as it stood in the sunshine, dreamed only of its own little fairy tale of history.

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**Who acts:** mistake, flower, history · **What happens:** stand, dream, tell · **To what, where:** flower, sunshine, own little fairy tale · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (mistake, flower, history), 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:pg27200:172:64
# text = But each flower, as it stood in the sunshine, dreamed only of its own little fairy tale of history.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
12	dreamed	dream	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	only	only	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
16	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | mistake | each flower *not said here* |  | the sunshine |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent flower=Theme in sunshine=Destination |
| 2 | **dream** | past | each flower | mistake's own little fairy tale of history |  |  |  |  | vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Topic |
| 3 | **tell** |  | history |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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