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title: "Welcome, welcome!" sang and sounded every ray, and the Flower lifte… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Welcome, welcome!" sang and sounded every ray, and the Flower lifted itself up over the snow into the brighter world. Who acts: Flower. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 16

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"Welcome, welcome!" sang and sounded every ray, and the Flower lifted itself up over the snow into the brighter world.

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**Who acts:** Flower · **What happens:** sing, sound, lift up · **To what, where:** ray, snow

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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), 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:pg27200:177:16
# text = "Welcome, welcome!" sang and sounded every ray, and the Flower lifted itself up over the snow into the brighter world.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Welcome	welcome	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	welcome	welcome	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	sounded	sound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
10	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	ray	ray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Flower	Flower	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
17	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obj	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
19	over	over	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	brighter	bright	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	amod	_	_
25	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sound** | past |  | every ray |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ray=Theme |
| 3 | **lift up** | past | the Flower | ray |  | the snow |  | into the brighter world | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent itself=Theme over snow=Destination into world=Initial\_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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