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title: Large red and blue flowers shone on the walls, looking like sunflowe… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Large red and blue flowers shone on the walls, looking like sunflowers in size, but no one could dare to pluck them, for the stems were hideous poisonous snakes, and the flowers were flames of fire, darting out of their jaws. Who acts: one, stems, flowers, hideous poisonous snakes. A sentence of «Fa
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 101

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Large red and blue flowers shone on the walls, looking like sunflowers in size, but no one could dare to pluck them, for the stems were hideous poisonous snakes, and the flowers were flames of fire, darting out of their jaws.

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**Who acts:** one, stems, flowers, hideous poisonous snakes · **What happens:** shine, look, dare, pluck, be, dart · **To what, where:** Large red flowers, walls, hideous poisonous snakes, flames, jaws

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, stems, flowers, hideous poisonous snakes), 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:pg27200:197:101
# text = Large red and blue flowers shone on the walls, looking like sunflowers in size, but no one could dare to pluck them, for the stems were hideous poisonous snakes, and the flowers were flames of fire, darting out of their jaws.
1	Large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
2	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	shone	shine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	sunflowers	sunflower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	dare	dare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	pluck	pluck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	stems	stem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
30	hideous	hideous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
37	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
38	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	darting	dart	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	acl	_	_
43	out	out	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	jaws	jaw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shine** | participle |  | Large red flowers *not said here* |  | the walls |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on wall=Location |
| 2 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | like sunflowers; in size | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in size=Theme |
| 3 | **dare** | could | no one |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **pluck** | to-infinitive | no one *not said here* | walls *= wall* |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 5 | **is a** | past | the stems | hideous poisonous snakes and flames |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is a** | past | the flowers | flames |  |  |  | of fire | tree rules |
| 7 | **dart** | gerund | hideous poisonous snakes and flames *not said here* |  |  | flowers's jaws |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out jaw=Trajectory |

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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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