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title: Poor Ambrosius Stub! he was a summer fool too, a poet fool; he came… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Poor Ambrosius Stub! he was a summer fool too, a poet fool; he came too early, before his time, and therefore he had to taste the sharp winds, and wander about as a guest from one noble landed proprietor to another, like a flower in a glass of water, a flower in rhymed verses! Who acts: Stub, Poor A
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 78

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Poor Ambrosius Stub! he was a summer fool too, a poet fool; he came too early, before his time, and therefore he had to taste the sharp winds, and wander about as a guest from one noble landed proprietor to another, like a flower in a glass of water, a flower in rhymed verses!

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**Who acts:** Stub, Poor Ambrosius Stub · **What happens:** be, come, have, taste, wander, land · **To what, where:** summer fool, sharp winds, proprietor, one noble

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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 (Stub, Poor Ambrosius Stub), 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:pg27200:177:78
# text = Poor Ambrosius Stub! he was a summer fool too, a poet fool; he came too early, before his time, and therefore he had to taste the sharp winds, and wander about as a guest from one noble landed proprietor to another, like a flower in a glass of water, a flower in rhymed verses!
1	Poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	Ambrosius	Ambrosius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Stub	stub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
10	too	too	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	too	too	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	before	before	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	taste	taste	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	wander	wander	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
37	about	about	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	as	as	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
41	from	from	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	43	nummod	_	_
43	noble	noble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
44	landed	land	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	parataxis	_	_
45	proprietor	proprietor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
46	to	to	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
49	like	like	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
52	in	in	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
58	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	conj	_	_
60	in	in	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	rhymed	rhyme	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	62	amod	_	_
62	verses	verse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	59	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Stub | a summer fool |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | past | Poor Ambrosius Stub and a summer fool and a poet fool |  |  |  | time | early *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | Stub |  |  |  |  | therefore *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **taste** | to-infinitive | Stub *not said here* | the sharp winds |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme wind=Attribute |
| 5 | **wander** | present | Poor Ambrosius Stub and a summer fool and a poet fool *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as a guest; about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **land** | past |  | proprietor |  | one noble |  | to another; like a flower in a glass of water and a flower in rhymed verses | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V ADVP»: agent=Theme proprietor=Destination |
| 7 | **rhyme** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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