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title: The peonies puffed themselves up in order to be larger than the rose… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The peonies puffed themselves up in order to be larger than the roses, but size is not everything! Who acts: peonies, size. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Daisy, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 11

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The peonies puffed themselves up in order to be larger than the roses, but size is not everything!

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**Who acts:** peonies, size · **What happens:** puff up, be, not be · **To what, where:** peonies, everything

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Daisy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peonies, size), 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:pg27200:20:11
# text = The peonies puffed themselves up in order to be larger than the roses, but size is not everything!
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	peonies	peony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	puffed	puff	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	10	case	_	_
7	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	fixed	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
10	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	obl	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **puff up** | past | the peonies | peonies *= peony* |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location themselves=Source |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | than the roses; large *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | present | size | everything |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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