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title: Balsams and other flowers greet us from the long rows of windows in… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Balsams and other flowers greet us from the long rows of windows in the house, whose interior is sufficiently poverty-stricken; and poor and old are the people who inhabit it. Who acts: Balsams, interior, poor people. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, By the A
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, By the Almshouse Window, sentence 2

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Balsams and other flowers greet us from the long rows of windows in the house, whose interior is sufficiently poverty-stricken; and poor and old are the people who inhabit it.

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**Who acts:** Balsams, interior, poor people · **What happens:** greet, be, inhabit · **To what, where:** us, long rows, poor people, house

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, By the Almshouse Window. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Balsams, interior, poor people), 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:pg27200:3:2
# text = Balsams and other flowers greet us from the long rows of windows in the house, whose interior is sufficiently poverty-stricken; and poor and old are the people who inhabit it.
1	Balsams	balsam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
5	greet	greet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	rows	row	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	interior	interior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
20	sufficiently	sufficiently	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	poverty	poverty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	stricken	stricken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	_
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	parataxis	_	_
32	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
33	inhabit	inhabit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **greet** *speech: greet* | present | Balsams and other flowers |  | us | the long rows of windows in the house |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | interior |  |  |  |  | stricken, sufficiently *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | the poor people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **inhabit** | present | the poor people | house |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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