--- title: The Thistle told this event to every blossom that unfolded itself, a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The Thistle told this event to every blossom that unfolded itself, and not many days had gone by before the Thistle heard, not from men, not from the twittering of the birds, but from the air itself, which stores up the sounds, and carries them far around--out of the most retired walks of the garden --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/189/23/) [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 Thistle's Experiences](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/189/) / 23 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 23 The Thistle told this event to every blossom that unfolded itself, and not many days had gone by before the Thistle heard, not from men, not from the twittering of the birds, but from the air itself, which stores up the sounds, and carries them far around--out of the most retired walks of the garden, and out of the rooms of the house, in which doors and windows stood open, that the young gentleman who had received the thistle-flower from the hand of the fair Scottish maiden had also now received the heart and hand of the lady in question. **Who acts:** Thistle, blossom, many days, doors, young gentleman, fair Scottish maiden · **What happens:** tell, unfold, go, hear, store up, carry · **To what, where:** event, men, sounds, air, young gentleman, rooms · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Thistle, blossom, many days, doors), 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:pg27200:189:23 # text = The Thistle told this event to every blossom that unfolded itself, and not many days had gone by before the Thistle heard, not from men, not from the twittering of the birds, but from the air itself, which stores up the sounds, and carries them far around--out of the most retired walks of the garden, and out of the rooms of the house, in which doors and windows stood open, that the young gentleman who had received the thistle-flower from the hand of the fair Scottish maiden had also now received the heart and hand of the lady in question. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Thistle Thistle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 5 det _ _ 5 event event NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 iobj _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 8 det _ _ 8 blossom blossom NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 unfolded unfold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 17 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 parataxis _ _ 19 by by SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 20 before before SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 Thistle Thistle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 26 from from ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 30 from from ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 twittering twittering NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 37 but but CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 38 from from ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ _ 41 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 43 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 44 nsubj _ _ 44 stores store VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 45 up up ADP RP _ 44 compound:prt _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 sounds sound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 49 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 50 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 51 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 50 obj _ _ 52 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 53 advmod _ _ 53 around around ADV RB _ 50 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 54 -- -- PUNCT , _ 60 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 55 out out ADP IN _ 60 case _ _ 56 of of ADP IN _ 60 case _ _ 57 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 60 det _ _ 58 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 59 advmod _ _ 59 retired retired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 60 amod _ _ 60 walks walk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 50 obj _ _ 61 of of ADP IN _ 63 case _ _ 62 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 63 det _ _ 63 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 64 , , PUNCT , _ 79 punct _ _ 65 and and CCONJ CC _ 79 cc _ _ 66 out out ADP IN _ 69 case _ _ 67 of of ADP IN _ 69 case _ _ 68 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 69 det _ _ 69 rooms room NOUN NNS Number=Plur 79 obl _ _ 70 of of ADP IN _ 72 case _ _ 71 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 72 det _ _ 72 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 69 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 73 , , PUNCT , _ 79 punct _ _ 74 in in ADP IN _ 75 case _ _ 75 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 79 obl _ _ 76 doors door NOUN NNS Number=Plur 79 nsubj _ _ 77 and and CCONJ CC _ 78 cc _ _ 78 windows window NOUN NNS Number=Plur 76 conj _ _ 79 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 80 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 79 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 81 , , PUNCT , _ 85 punct _ _ 82 that that SCONJ IN _ 85 mark _ _ 83 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 85 det _ _ 84 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 85 amod _ _ 85 gentleman gentleman NOUN NN Number=Sing 79 obl _ _ 86 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 88 nsubj _ _ 87 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 88 aux _ _ 88 received receive VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 85 acl:relcl _ _ 89 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 92 det _ _ 90 thistle thistle NOUN NN Number=Sing 92 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 91 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 90 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 92 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 88 obj _ _ 93 from from ADP IN _ 95 case _ _ 94 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 95 det _ _ 95 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 88 obl _ _ 96 of of ADP IN _ 100 case _ _ 97 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 100 det _ _ 98 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 100 amod _ _ 99 Scottish Scottish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 100 amod _ _ 100 maiden maiden NOUN NN Number=Sing 95 nmod _ _ 101 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 100 acl _ _ 102 also also ADV RB _ 104 advmod _ _ 103 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 104 advmod _ _ 104 received receive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 101 advcl _ _ 105 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 106 det _ _ 106 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 104 obj _ _ 107 and and CCONJ CC _ 108 cc _ _ 108 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 106 conj _ _ 109 of of ADP IN _ 111 case _ _ 110 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 111 det _ _ 111 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 108 nmod _ _ 112 in in ADP IN _ 113 case _ _ 113 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 111 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 114 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the Thistle | | this event | | | to every blossom | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent event=Topic to blossom=Recipient | | 2 | **unfold** | past | every blossom | event | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent itself=Patient | | 3 | **go** | past · perfect | many days | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **hear** | past | the Thistle | men | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | | 5 | **store up** | present | | the sounds | | the air air | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Theme | | 6 | **carry** | present | | sounds *= sound* | | | | around *property* | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme they=Beneficiary walk=Value | | 7 | **stand** | past | doors and windows | the young gentleman | | the rooms of the house | | open *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out room=Location | | 8 | **receive** | past · perfect | the young gentleman | the thistle flower | | the hand of the fair Scottish maiden | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent flower=Theme from hand=Source | | 9 | **have** | past | the fair Scottish maiden *not said here* | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **receive** | past | the fair Scottish maiden *not said here* | the heart and hand of the lady in question | | | now | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme | | 11 | **walk** | | | the garden | | | | | nom walk «act transitive»: of=patient | 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 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/189/22/) - next →: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/189/24/) - ↑ back to [The Thistle's Experiences](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/189/)