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title: Then he promised every little thistle flower which unfolded itself t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he promised every little thistle flower which unfolded itself that it also should be put into a pot, and perhaps into a buttonhole, the highest honor that could be attained. Who acts: last, little thistle flower. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The This
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 30

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Then he promised every little thistle flower which unfolded itself that it also should be put into a pot, and perhaps into a buttonhole, the highest honor that could be attained.

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**Who acts:** last, little thistle flower · **What happens:** promise, unfold, put, attain · **To what, where:** little thistle flower, buttonhole, manner, pot, highest honor

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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 (last, little thistle 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:pg27200:189:30
# text = Then he promised every little thistle flower which unfolded itself that it also should be put into a pot, and perhaps into a buttonhole, the highest honor that could be attained.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	thistle	thistle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	unfolded	unfold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obj	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	also	also	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	buttonhole	buttonhole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	29	amod	_	_
29	honor	honor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	obj	_	_
31	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	attained	attain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | last | every little thistle flower |  | a buttonhole | then |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent flower=Theme |
| 2 | **unfold** | past | every little thistle flower | manner |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent itself=Patient |
| 3 | **put** | should · passive |  | manner |  | a pot |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
| 4 | **attain** | could · passive |  | the highest honor |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: that=Theme |

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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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