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title: Each little blade of grass shall be a green tree for me, each of you… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Each little blade of grass shall be a green tree for me, each of your white petals a fragrant flower. Who acts: little blade. 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 58

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Each little blade of grass shall be a green tree for me, each of your white petals a fragrant flower.

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**Who acts:** little blade · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** green tree

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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 blade), 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:pg27200:20:58
# text = Each little blade of grass shall be a green tree for me, each of your white petals a fragrant flower.
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	blade	blade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	appos	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	petals	petal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	fragrant	fragrant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | shall | each little blade of grass | a green tree |  |  |  | for me | 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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