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title: "When will it be summer?" asked the Flower, and she repeated this qu… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "When will it be summer?" asked the Flower, and she repeated this question each time a new sunbeam made its way down to her. Who acts: stirring, summer, flower, new sunbeam. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 9

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"When will it be summer?" asked the Flower, and she repeated this question each time a new sunbeam made its way down to her.

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**Who acts:** stirring, summer, flower, new sunbeam · **What happens:** be, ask, repeat, make down · **To what, where:** summer, Flower, question, way · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (stirring, summer, flower, new sunbeam), 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:pg27200:177:9
# text = "When will it be summer?" asked the Flower, and she repeated this question each time a new sunbeam made its way down to her.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Flower	Flower	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	sunbeam	sunbeam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	down	down	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | future | stirring | summer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | summer |  | the Flower |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent flower=Recipient |
| 3 | **repeat** | past | flower | this question |  |  | time |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality |
| 4 | **make down** | past | a new sunbeam | stirring's way | flower |  |  | down *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product |

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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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