--- title: And the Flower stirred and stretched itself within the thin rind whi… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: And the Flower stirred and stretched itself within the thin rind which the water had softened from without, and the snow and the earth had warmed, and the Sunbeam had knocked at; and it shot forth under the snow with a greenish-white blossom on a green stalk, with narrow thick leaves, which seemed t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/177/14/) [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/) / [The Snowdrop](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/177/) / 14 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 14 And the Flower stirred and stretched itself within the thin rind which the water had softened from without, and the snow and the earth had warmed, and the Sunbeam had knocked at; and it shot forth under the snow with a greenish-white blossom on a green stalk, with narrow thick leaves, which seemed to want to protect it. **Who acts:** Flower, snow, narrow thick leaves · **What happens:** stir, stretch, soften, warm, knock, shoot · **To what, where:** stirring, thin rind, snow, Sunbeam This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Flower, snow, narrow thick leaves), 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:pg27200:177:14 # text = And the Flower stirred and stretched itself within the thin rind which the water had softened from without, and the snow and the earth had warmed, and the Sunbeam had knocked at; and it shot forth under the snow with a greenish-white blossom on a green stalk, with narrow thick leaves, which seemed to want to protect it. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Flower Flower PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 stirred stir VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 stretched stretch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 7 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 6 obj _ _ 8 within within ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 rind rind NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 12 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 softened soften VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 acl:relcl _ _ 17 from from ADP IN _ 16 obl _ _ 18 without without ADP IN _ 17 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 26 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 warmed warm VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 Sunbeam Sunbeam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nsubj:pass _ _ 32 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 knocked knock VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 conj _ _ 34 at at ADP IN _ 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ; ; PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 shot shoot VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 39 forth forth ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 40 under under ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 43 with with ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 45 greenish greenish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 blossom blossom NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 49 on on ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 50 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 51 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 amod _ _ 52 stalk stalk NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 54 with with ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 55 narrow narrow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 57 amod _ _ 56 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 57 amod _ _ 57 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 58 , , PUNCT , _ 60 punct _ _ 59 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 60 nsubj _ _ 60 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 57 acl:relcl _ _ 61 to to PART TO _ 62 mark _ _ 62 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 60 xcomp _ _ 63 to to PART TO _ 64 mark _ _ 64 protect protect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 62 xcomp _ _ 65 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 64 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 66 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stir** | past | the Flower | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **stretch** | past | the Flower *not said here* | stirring | | | | within the thin rind | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent itself=Patient | | 3 | **soften** | past · perfect · passive | | the thin rind | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **warm** | past · perfect · passive | | the snow and the earth | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | | 5 | **knock** | past · perfect · passive | | the Sunbeam | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient | | 6 | **shoot** | past | snow | | | the snow | | with a white blossom; on a green stalk; forth *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent under snow=Destination | | 7 | **seem** | past | narrow thick leaves | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 8 | **want** | to-infinitive | narrow thick leaves *not said here* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 9 | **protect** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | narrow thick leaves *not said here* | stirring | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary | 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 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/177/13/) - next →: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/177/15/) - ↑ back to [The Snowdrop](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/177/)