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title: No rose on its stem is fresher than she; no apple-blossom, wafted by… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: No rose on its stem is fresher than she; no apple-blossom, wafted by the wind, floats more lightly than she moves. Who acts: rose, ivy, road. 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 p
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 80

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No rose on its stem is fresher than she; no apple-blossom, wafted by the wind, floats more lightly than she moves.

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**Who acts:** rose, ivy, road · **What happens:** be, waft, float, move, stem · **To what, where:** apple blossom

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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 (rose, ivy, road), 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:pg27200:172:80
# text = No rose on its stem is fresher than she; no apple-blossom, wafted by the wind, floats more lightly than she moves.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	stem	stem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	fresher	fresh	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
12	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	blossom	blossom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	wafted	waft	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	floats	float	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
22	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	_
23	lightly	lightly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
24	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	moves	move	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | no rose on road's stem |  |  |  |  | than no apple blossom; fresh *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **waft** | participle |  | no apple blossom *not said here* |  |  |  | by the wind | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by wind=Location |
| 3 | **float** | present | no rose on road's stem *not said here* |  |  |  |  | lightly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **move** | present | ivy |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **stem** |  | road |  |  |  |  |  | nom stem «communication transitive»: poss=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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