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title: The opening spring has brought it forth, the summer will see it in a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The opening spring has brought it forth, the summer will see it in all its splendor, the autumn winds will sweep it away, so that not a leaf, not a fragment of its root shall remain." Who acts: summer, autumn winds, leaf. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 90

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The opening spring has brought it forth, the summer will see it in all its splendor, the autumn winds will sweep it away, so that not a leaf, not a fragment of its root shall remain."

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**Who acts:** summer, autumn winds, leaf · **What happens:** bring, see, sweep away, remain · **To what, where:** opening spring, plant, splendor

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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 (summer, autumn winds, leaf), 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:pg27200:24:90
# text = The opening spring has brought it forth, the summer will see it in all its splendor, the autumn winds will sweep it away, so that not a leaf, not a fragment of its root shall remain."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	opening	opening	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	17	det:predet	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	splendor	splendor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	sweep	sweep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	parataxis	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	away	away	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
27	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	fragment	fragment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
39	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | present · perfect · passive |  | the opening spring |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination it=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | future | the summer | plant |  | plant's splendor |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 3 | **sweep away** | future | the autumn winds | plant |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory |
| 4 | **remain** | shall | a leaf |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «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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