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title: On the following morning, when the flower once more stretched forth… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: On the following morning, when the flower once more stretched forth its tender petals, like little arms, towards the air and light, the daisy recognised the bird's voice, but what it sang sounded so sad. Who acts: daisy. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The D
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 34

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On the following morning, when the flower once more stretched forth its tender petals, like little arms, towards the air and light, the daisy recognised the bird's voice, but what it sang sounded so sad.

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**Who acts:** daisy · **What happens:** follow, stretch, recognise, sound · **To what, where:** flower, voice, centre

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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 (daisy), 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:pg27200:20:34
# text = On the following morning, when the flower once more stretched forth its tender petals, like little arms, towards the air and light, the daisy recognised the bird's voice, but what it sang sounded so sad.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
4	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	11	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	11	advmod	_	_
10	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
11	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	tender	tender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	petals	petal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	daisy	daisy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	recognised	recognise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	's	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	obl	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	sounded	sound	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	acl:relcl	_	_
40	so	so	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stretch** | participle · passive |  | the flower |  |  | morning | like little arms; towards the air and light; forth, once *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient petal=Result |
| 3 | **recognise** | past | the daisy | the bird's voice |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus |
| 4 | **sound** | past · passive |  | centre |  |  |  | sad *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: 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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