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title: Every year this tree sends forth fresh green shoots. — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Every year this tree sends forth fresh green shoots. Who acts: tree. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, By the Almshouse Window, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, By the Almshouse Window, sentence 25

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Every year this tree sends forth fresh green shoots.

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**Who acts:** tree · **What happens:** send · **To what, where:** fresh green shoots

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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 (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:pg27200:3:25
# text = Every year this tree sends forth fresh green shoots.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sends	send	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	shoots	shoot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | present | this tree | fresh green shoots |  |  | year | forth *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoot=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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