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title: A few innocent daisies, and a long thin dandelion, stood and listene… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A few innocent daisies, and a long thin dandelion, stood and listened in deep admiration, and believed everything they heard. Who acts: few innocent daisies, daisies. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, with its dependency tree and the
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 39

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A few innocent daisies, and a long thin dandelion, stood and listened in deep admiration, and believed everything they heard.

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**Who acts:** few innocent daisies, daisies · **What happens:** stand, listen, believe, hear · **To what, where:** everything

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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 (few innocent daisies, daisies), 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:pg27200:189:39
# text = A few innocent daisies, and a long thin dandelion, stood and listened in deep admiration, and believed everything they heard.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	innocent	innocent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	daisies	daisy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	dandelion	dandelion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	listened	listen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	admiration	admiration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	believed	believe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
21	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	20	obj	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | a few innocent daisies |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **listen** | past | a few innocent daisies *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in deep admiration | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in admiration=Theme |
| 3 | **believe** | past | a few innocent daisies *not said here* | everything |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus |
| 4 | **hear** | past | daisies *= daisy* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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