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title: "A fairy tale flower," said another, "a many-colored lotus-plant, wh… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "A fairy tale flower," said another, "a many-colored lotus-plant, which spreads out its green leaves like a velvet carpet over the sand. Who acts: fairy tale flower, colored lotus plant. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, with its dependency 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 89

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"A fairy tale flower," said another, "a many-colored lotus-plant, which spreads out its green leaves like a velvet carpet over the sand.

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**Who acts:** fairy tale flower, colored lotus plant · **What happens:** say, color, spread out · **To what, where:** colored lotus plant, green leaves · **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 (fairy tale flower, colored lotus plant), 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:pg27200:24:89
# text = "A fairy tale flower," said another, "a many-colored lotus-plant, which spreads out its green leaves like a velvet carpet over the sand.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
13	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	colored	color	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
16	lotus	lotus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	spreads	spread	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
26	like	like	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	velvet	velvet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	carpet	carpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
30	over	over	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## 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 fairy tale flower | another colored lotus plant |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent plant=Topic |
| 2 | **color** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **spread out** *in a quote* | present | another colored lotus plant | wonder's green leaves |  |  |  | like a velvet carpet over the sand | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location leaf=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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