--- title: "Roses bloom and cease to be, But we shall the Christ-child see." — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "Roses bloom and cease to be, But we shall the Christ-child see." Who acts: Roses, we. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/176/61/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and Wh…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/176/) / 61 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last, sentence 61 "Roses bloom and cease to be, But we shall the Christ-child see." **Who acts:** Roses, we · **What happens:** bloom, cease, be, see This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Roses, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:176:61 # text = "Roses bloom and cease to be, But we shall the Christ-child see." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Roses rose NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 bloom bloom VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 cease cease VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 9 But but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 10 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 11 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 13 Christ Christ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bloom** *in a quote* | present | Roses | | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **cease** *in a quote* | present | Roses *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **be** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Roses *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **see** *in a quote* | shall | we | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/176/60/) - next →: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/176/62/) - ↑ back to [Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/176/)