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title: One morning it had quite opened, and its little snow-white petals st… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: One morning it had quite opened, and its little snow-white petals stood round the yellow centre, like the rays of the sun. It did not mind that nobody saw it in the grass, and that it was a poor despised flower; on the contrary, it was quite happy, and turned towards the sun, looking upward and list
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 4

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One morning it had quite opened, and its little snow-white petals stood round the yellow centre, like the rays of the sun. It did not mind that nobody saw it in the grass, and that it was a poor despised flower; on the contrary, it was quite happy, and turned towards the sun, looking upward and listening to the song of the lark high up in the air.

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**Who acts:** little snow white petals, bank, that, lark · **What happens:** open, stand, not mind, see, despise, be · **To what, where:** One morning, bank, grass, poor despised flower, sun, air

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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 (little snow white petals, bank, that, lark), 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:pg27200:20:4
# text = One morning it had quite opened, and its little snow-white petals stood round the yellow centre, like the rays of the sun. It did not mind that nobody saw it in the grass, and that it was a poor despised flower; on the contrary, it was quite happy, and turned towards the sun, looking upward and listening to the song of the lark high up in the air.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	opened	open	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
11	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	petals	petal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	round	round	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	like	like	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	rays	ray	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	sun.	sun.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	mind	mind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	nsubj	_	_
32	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	33	nsubj	_	_
33	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	ccomp	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
40	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
41	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
42	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	cop	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
44	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
45	despised	despise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	amod	_	_
46	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	50	punct	_	_
48	on	on	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	contrary	contrary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
52	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
53	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	55	cop	_	_
54	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
55	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
58	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
59	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
63	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	58	advcl	_	_
64	upward	upward	ADV	RB	_	63	advmod	_	_
65	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	66	cc	_	_
66	listening	listen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	63	conj	_	_
67	to	to	ADP	IN	_	69	case	_	_
68	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	69	det	_	_
69	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	66	obl	_	_
70	of	of	ADP	IN	_	72	case	_	_
71	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	72	det	_	_
72	lark	lark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	69	nmod	_	_
73	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	74	advmod	_	_
74	up	up	ADV	RB	_	72	advmod	_	_
75	in	in	ADP	IN	_	77	case	_	_
76	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	77	det	_	_
77	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	66	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
78	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | past · perfect · passive |  | One morning |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past | bank's little snow white petals |  |  |  |  | round the yellow centre; like the rays of the sun. | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **mind** | past · do-support | bank |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **see** | past | that | bank |  | the grass |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 5 | **despise** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **is a** | past | bank | a poor despised flower |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** | past | bank |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **turn** | past |  |  |  | the sun |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards sun=Trajectory |
| 9 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | upward *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 10 | **listen** | gerund |  |  |  | the air |  | to the song of the lark | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to song=Theme |
| 11 | **ray** |  |  | the sun. |  |  |  |  | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
| 12 | **sing** |  | the lark |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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