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title: The yellow centre in the daisy did indeed look like gold, while the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The yellow centre in the daisy did indeed look like gold, while the little petals shone as brightly as silver. Who acts: yellow centre. 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 19

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The yellow centre in the daisy did indeed look like gold, while the little petals shone as brightly as silver.

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**Who acts:** yellow centre · **What happens:** look, shine · **To what, where:** little petals

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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 (yellow centre), 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:pg27200:20:19
# text = The yellow centre in the daisy did indeed look like gold, while the little petals shone as brightly as silver.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	daisy	daisy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	petals	petal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	shone	shine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	parataxis	_	_
18	as	as	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	brightly	brightly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past · do-support | the yellow centre in the daisy |  |  |  |  | like gold; indeed *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **shine** | participle · passive |  | the little petals |  |  |  | brightly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |

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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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