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title: Eagerly she showered snowy blossoms over apple and peach-trees, so t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Eagerly she showered snowy blossoms over apple and peach-trees, so that they stood in full beauty before even their green leaves had burst from the bud. Who acts: child, flowers. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year, with its dependency tree
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 74

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Eagerly she showered snowy blossoms over apple and peach-trees, so that they stood in full beauty before even their green leaves had burst from the bud.

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**Who acts:** child, flowers · **What happens:** shower, stand, burst · **To what, where:** snowy blossoms, apple, full beauty, green leaves, bud

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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 (child, flowers), 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:pg27200:214:74
# text = Eagerly she showered snowy blossoms over apple and peach-trees, so that they stood in full beauty before even their green leaves had burst from the bud.
1	Eagerly	eagerly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	showered	shower	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	snowy	snowy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	peach	peach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	16	mark	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	before	before	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
21	even	even	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	burst	burst	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	parataxis	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	bud	bud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shower** | past | child | snowy blossoms |  | apple and peach trees |  | eagerly *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent blossom=Theme over apple=Destination |
| 2 | **stand** | past | flowers *= flower* |  |  | full beauty |  | before *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in beauty=Location |
| 3 | **burst** | past · perfect · passive |  | flowers's green leaves |  | the bud |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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