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title: "A splendid blossom of art and industry," said one, "has unfolded it… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "A splendid blossom of art and industry," said one, "has unfolded itself in the Champ de Mars, a gigantic sunflower, from whose petals one can learn geography and statistics, and can become as wise as a lord mayor, and raise one's self to the level of art and poetry, and study the greatness and powe
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 88

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"A splendid blossom of art and industry," said one, "has unfolded itself in the Champ de Mars, a gigantic sunflower, from whose petals one can learn geography and statistics, and can become as wise as a lord mayor, and raise one's self to the level of art and poetry, and study the greatness and power of the various lands."

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**Who acts:** splendid blossom, one · **What happens:** say, unfold, learn, become, raise, study · **To what, where:** one, wonder, Champ Mars, geography, greatness · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (splendid blossom, one), 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:pg27200:24:88
# text = "A splendid blossom of art and industry," said one, "has unfolded itself in the Champ de Mars, a gigantic sunflower, from whose petals one can learn geography and statistics, and can become as wise as a lord mayor, and raise one's self to the level of art and poetry, and study the greatness and power of the various lands."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	blossom	blossom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	industry	industry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	unfolded	unfold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	ccomp	_	_
17	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	Champ	Champ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
21	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
22	Mars	Mars	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	gigantic	gigantic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	sunflower	sunflower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	petals	petal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
31	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	acl:relcl	_	_
34	geography	geography	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	statistics	statistic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	conj	_	_
41	as	as	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	xcomp	_	_
43	as	as	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	mayor	mayor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	raise	raise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	conj	_	_
50	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	's	's	PART	POS	_	50	case	_	_
52	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	_
53	to	to	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nmod	_	_
58	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
59	poetry	poetry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
61	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
62	study	study	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	parataxis	_	_
63	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
64	greatness	greatness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	obj	_	_
65	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	66	cc	_	_
66	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	conj	_	_
67	of	of	ADP	IN	_	70	case	_	_
68	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	70	det	_	_
69	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	70	amod	_	_
70	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	66	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	62	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
72	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	62	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a splendid blossom of art and industry | one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **unfold** *in a quote* | present · perfect |  | wonder |  | the Champ Mars |  | from petals | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent itself=Patient |
| 3 | **learn** *in a quote* | can | one | geography and statistics |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent geography=Topic |
| 4 | **become** *in a quote* | can | one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | wise *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **raise** *in a quote* | infinitive | one *not said here* | one |  |  |  | to the level of art and poetry *result* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2 «NP V NP.patient NP.extent PP.initial\_state PP.result»: agent=Causer one=Patient self=Extent to level=Result |
| 6 | **study** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the greatness and power of the various lands |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent greatness=Topic |

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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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