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title: They greeted the earth with a kiss, and wherever they placed their f… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They greeted the earth with a kiss, and wherever they placed their feet white flowers sprung up from beneath the snow. Who acts: backs. 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 65

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They greeted the earth with a kiss, and wherever they placed their feet white flowers sprung up from beneath the snow.

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**Who acts:** backs · **What happens:** greet, place, spring up · **To what, where:** earth, feet, white flowers, snow

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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 (backs), 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:pg27200:214:65
# text = They greeted the earth with a kiss, and wherever they placed their feet white flowers sprung up from beneath the snow.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	greeted	greet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	kiss	kiss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
17	sprung	spring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **greet** *speech: greet* | past | backs *= back* | the earth |  |  |  | with a kiss | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Theme |
| 2 | **place** | past | backs *= back* | backs's feet |  |  |  | wherever *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme flower=Destination |
| 3 | **spring up** | participle |  | white flowers *not said here* |  | the snow |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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