--- title: As he passed through the fields, all the flowers looked fresh and be… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: As he passed through the fields, all the flowers looked fresh and beautiful in the warm sunshine, and nodded in the wind, as if they wished to say, "Welcome to the green wood, where all is fresh and bright." Who acts: John, flowers, all. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. 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C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John, flowers, all), 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:pg27200:196:31 # text = As he passed through the fields, all the flowers looked fresh and beautiful in the warm sunshine, and nodded in the wind, as if they wished to say, "Welcome to the green wood, where all is fresh and bright." 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 passed pass VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 4 through through ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 fields field NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 8 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 10 det:predet _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 sunshine sunshine NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 nodded nod VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 parataxis _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 as as SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 27 if if SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 wished wish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 33 " " PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 Welcome welcome INTJ UH _ 38 discourse _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 40 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 43 advmod _ _ 41 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 43 nsubj _ _ 42 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 43 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 parataxis _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pass** | past | John | | | the fields | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through field=Location | | 2 | **look** | past | all flowers | | | | | fresh *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **nod** | participle | | | | | | in the wind | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in wind=Theme | | 4 | **wish** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | flowers *= flower* | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | flowers *= flower* *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | all | | | | | fresh *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **be** *in a quote* | | all *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | 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 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/196/30/) - next →: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/196/32/) - ↑ back to [The Travelling Companion, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/196/)