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title: The wild chestnuts fell ripe from their dark, green shells, and in t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The wild chestnuts fell ripe from their dark, green shells, and in the forests the violets bloomed for the second time. Who acts: wild chestnuts. 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 clau
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 120

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The wild chestnuts fell ripe from their dark, green shells, and in the forests the violets bloomed for the second time.

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**Who acts:** wild chestnuts · **What happens:** fall, bloom · **To what, where:** dark green shells, forests

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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 (wild chestnuts), 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:pg27200:214:120
# text = The wild chestnuts fell ripe from their dark, green shells, and in the forests the violets bloomed for the second time.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	chestnuts	chestnut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	ripe	ripe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
8	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	shells	shell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	violets	violet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	bloomed	bloom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	23	amod	_	_
23	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | the wild chestnuts |  |  | chestnuts's dark green shells |  | in the forests and the violets; ripe *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in forest=Location |
| 2 | **bloom** | participle |  | the forests and the violets *not said here* |  |  | time |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=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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