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title: "Pluck the flower off," said the other boy, and the daisy trembled f… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Pluck the flower off," said the other boy, and the daisy trembled for fear, for to be pulled off meant death to it; and it wished so much to live, as it was to go with the square of turf into the poor captive lark's cage. Who acts: other boy, daisy, death. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christi
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 45

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"Pluck the flower off," said the other boy, and the daisy trembled for fear, for to be pulled off meant death to it; and it wished so much to live, as it was to go with the square of turf into the poor captive lark's cage.

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**Who acts:** other boy, daisy, death · **What happens:** pluck off, say, tremble, pull off, mean, wish · **To what, where:** flower, daisy, death, much, cage · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (other boy, daisy, death), 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:pg27200:20:45
# text = "Pluck the flower off," said the other boy, and the daisy trembled for fear, for to be pulled off meant death to it; and it wished so much to live, as it was to go with the square of turf into the poor captive lark's cage.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Pluck	pluck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	daisy	daisy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
16	trembled	tremble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
24	off	off	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
26	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
33	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	obj	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
40	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	conj	_	_
43	with	with	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	square	square	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	turf	turf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	_
48	into	into	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
50	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
51	captive	captive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	lark	lark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	's	's	PART	POS	_	52	case	_	_
54	cage	cage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pluck off** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the flower |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the other boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **tremble** | participle |  | the daisy *not said here* |  |  |  | for fear | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **pull off** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S\_ING» |
| 5 | **mean** | past | the daisy | death | death |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot death=Theme to it=Attribute |
| 6 | **wish** | past | death | much |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot much=Theme |
| 7 | **live** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **is** | past | death |  |  | the poor captive lark's cage |  | with the square of turf; go *property* | 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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