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title: While it was alive and sang they forgot it, and let it suffer want i… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: While it was alive and sang they forgot it, and let it suffer want in the cage; now, they cried over it and covered it with flowers. Who acts: body, flowers, you. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Daisy, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 66

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While it was alive and sang they forgot it, and let it suffer want in the cage; now, they cried over it and covered it with flowers.

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**Who acts:** body, flowers, you · **What happens:** be, sing, forget, let, suffer, want · **To what, where:** body, 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 (body, flowers, you), 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:pg27200:20:66
# text = While it was alive and sang they forgot it, and let it suffer want in the cage; now, they cried over it and covered it with flowers.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	advcl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	suffer	suffer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	cage	cage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
24	over	over	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	covered	cover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | body |  |  |  |  | alive *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | body *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **forget** | past | flowers *= flower* | body |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | body |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **suffer** | infinitive | body *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **want** | present | body *not said here* |  |  | the cage |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 7 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | flowers *= flower* |  |  | body | now |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over it=Location |
| 8 | **cover** | past | flowers *= flower* *not said here* | body |  |  |  | with flowers | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with flower=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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