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title: And he brought the fairest blossom, and pricked his fingers as compl… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And he brought the fairest blossom, and pricked his fingers as completely as if it had grown on the sharpest rose bush. Who acts: Ass, blossom. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 15

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And he brought the fairest blossom, and pricked his fingers as completely as if it had grown on the sharpest rose bush.

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**Who acts:** Ass, blossom · **What happens:** bring, prick, grow · **To what, where:** fairest blossom, fingers, sharpest rose bush

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ass, blossom), 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:pg27200:189:15
# text = And he brought the fairest blossom, and pricked his fingers as completely as if it had grown on the sharpest rose bush.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	fairest	fair	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	blossom	blossom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	pricked	prick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	as	as	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	sharpest	sharp	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	23	amod	_	_
22	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past | Ass | the fairest blossom |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent blossom=Theme |
| 2 | **prick** | past | Ass *not said here* | Ass's fingers |  |  |  | completely *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer finger=Patient |
| 3 | **grow** | past · perfect | blossom |  |  | the sharpest rose bush |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bush=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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