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title: It could not move one of its leaves, but the fragrance of its delica… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It could not move one of its leaves, but the fragrance of its delicate petals streamed forth, and was much stronger than such flowers usually have: the bird noticed it, although it was dying with thirst, and in its pain tore up the green blades of grass, but did not touch the flower. Who acts: conso
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 61

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It could not move one of its leaves, but the fragrance of its delicate petals streamed forth, and was much stronger than such flowers usually have: the bird noticed it, although it was dying with thirst, and in its pain tore up the green blades of grass, but did not touch the flower.

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**Who acts:** console, such flowers, bird · **What happens:** not move, stream, be, have, notice, die · **To what, where:** one, delicate petals, console, green blades, pain, flower

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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 (console, such flowers, bird), 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:pg27200:20:61
# text = It could not move one of its leaves, but the fragrance of its delicate petals streamed forth, and was much stronger than such flowers usually have: the bird noticed it, although it was dying with thirst, and in its pain tore up the green blades of grass, but did not touch the flower.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	fragrance	fragrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	delicate	delicate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	petals	petal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
17	streamed	stream	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	much	much	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	parataxis	_	_
24	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
27	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	noticed	notice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	parataxis	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	dying	die	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	parataxis	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	thirst	thirst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
46	tore	tore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
47	up	up	ADP	RP	_	46	compound:prt	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	blades	blade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obj	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
54	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
55	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
56	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	57	advmod	_	_
57	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **move** | could | console | one of console's leaves |  |  |  | the fragrance of console's delicate petals *obl* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme one=Result |
| 2 | **stream** | participle |  | console's delicate petals *not said here* |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | present | such flowers |  |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **notice** | past | the bird | console |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 6 | **die** | past · progressive | console |  |  |  |  | with thirst | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 7 | **tore up** | past | the bird *not said here* | the green blades of grass |  | console's pain |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **not** **touch** | past · do-support | console *not said here* | the flower |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme flower=Co-Theme |
| 9 | **pain** |  | console |  |  |  |  |  | nom pain «state transitive»: poss=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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