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title: The passers-by stood still and smiled in admiration of its pure vern… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The passers-by stood still and smiled in admiration of its pure vernal freshness. Who acts: passers. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 29

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The passers-by stood still and smiled in admiration of its pure vernal freshness.

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**Who acts:** passers · **What happens:** stand, smile, admire · **To what, where:** pure vernal freshness

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (passers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:1645`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:25:29
# text = The passers-by stood still and smiled in admiration of its pure vernal freshness.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	passers	passer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
4	by	by	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	still	still	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	smiled	smile	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	admiration	admiration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
13	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	vernal	vernal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	freshness	freshness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | the passers |  |  |  | still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **smile** | past | the passers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in admiration of admiration's pure vernal freshness | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in admiration=Theme |
| 3 | **admire** |  |  | admiration's pure vernal freshness |  |  |  |  | nom admiration «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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