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title: "Scarcely have the violets come forth, but there on the rampart, jus… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Scarcely have the violets come forth, but there on the rampart, just opposite the beautiful Castle of Rosenberg, there is a tree bright with the first green buds. Who acts: violets, tree. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, By the Almshouse Window, with its dep
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, By the Almshouse Window, sentence 24

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"Scarcely have the violets come forth, but there on the rampart, just opposite the beautiful Castle of Rosenberg, there is a tree bright with the first green buds.

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**Who acts:** violets, tree · **What happens:** come, be · **To what, where:** Scarcely, rampart

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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 (violets, tree), 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:pg27200:3:24
# text = "Scarcely have the violets come forth, but there on the rampart, just opposite the beautiful Castle of Rosenberg, there is a tree bright with the first green buds.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Scarcely	scarcely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	violets	violet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	rampart	rampart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	just	just	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
16	opposite	opposite	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Rosenberg	Rosenberg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	24	expl	_	_
24	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
27	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	32	amod	_	_
31	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	buds	bud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | present | the violets | Scarcely |  | the rampart; there |  | opposite the beautiful Castle of Rosenberg; forth *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on rampart=Location |
| 2 | **be** *in a quote* | present | a tree |  |  | there |  |  | 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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