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title: The mother was a proud tulip, and never acknowledged the salutations… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The mother was a proud tulip, and never acknowledged the salutations of any of the men or maidens who paused in their sport to do her honor. Who acts: mother, proud tulip, maidens, mirth. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind, with its depend
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 32

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The mother was a proud tulip, and never acknowledged the salutations of any of the men or maidens who paused in their sport to do her honor.

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**Who acts:** mother, proud tulip, maidens, mirth · **What happens:** be, not acknowledge, pause, do, sport, honor · **To what, where:** proud tulip, salutations, sport, honor

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, proud tulip, maidens, mirth), 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:pg27200:212:32
# text = The mother was a proud tulip, and never acknowledged the salutations of any of the men or maidens who paused in their sport to do her honor.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	tulip	tulip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	acknowledged	acknowledge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	salutations	salutation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	paused	pause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	honor	honor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the mother | a proud tulip |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **acknowledge** | past | a proud tulip *not said here* | the salutations of any |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salutation=Topic |
| 3 | **pause** | past | maidens |  |  | maidens's sport |  |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sport=Location |
| 4 | **do** | to-infinitive | maidens *not said here* | mirth's honor |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honor=Eventuality |
| 5 | **sport** |  | maidens *= maiden* |  |  |  |  |  | nom sport «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **honor** |  | mirth |  |  |  |  |  | nom honor «communication 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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