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title: The leaves of the forest put on colors of red and gold, and bright t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The leaves of the forest put on colors of red and gold, and bright tints covered the woodlands. Who acts: bright tints. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 118

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The leaves of the forest put on colors of red and gold, and bright tints covered the woodlands.

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**Who acts:** bright tints · **What happens:** put, cover · **To what, where:** leaves, colors

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bright tints), 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:pg27200:214:118
# text = The leaves of the forest put on colors of red and gold, and bright tints covered the woodlands.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	colors	color	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	tints	tint	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	covered	cover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	woodlands	woodland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | participle |  | the leaves of the forest *not said here* |  | colors of red gold |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on color=Destination |
| 2 | **cover** | past | bright tints | the leaves of the forest |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme woodland=Destination |

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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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