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title: The tulips had the finest colours, and they knew it well, too, for t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The tulips had the finest colours, and they knew it well, too, for they were standing bolt upright like candles, that one might see them the better. Who acts: tulips, one. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Daisy, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 12

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The tulips had the finest colours, and they knew it well, too, for they were standing bolt upright like candles, that one might see them the better.

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**Who acts:** tulips, one · **What happens:** have, know, stand, see · **To what, where:** finest colours, size, bolt upright, tulips

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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 (tulips, one), 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:pg27200:20:12
# text = The tulips had the finest colours, and they knew it well, too, for they were standing bolt upright like candles, that one might see them the better.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tulips	tulip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	finest	fine	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	too	too	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
20	bolt	bolt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	upright	upright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	like	like	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	candles	candle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the tulips | the finest colours |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient |
| 2 | **know** | past | tulips *= tulip* | size |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 3 | **stand** | past · progressive | tulips *= tulip* | bolt upright |  |  |  | like candles | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer upright=Stimulus |
| 4 | **see** | might | that one | tulips *= tulip* |  |  |  | the better *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |

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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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