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title: He could feel through the leaf how hot the lips of the young man wer… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He could feel through the leaf how hot the lips of the young man were, and the rose had opened, as if from the heat of the noonday sun. Who acts: elf, lips, noonday sun.. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 27

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He could feel through the leaf how hot the lips of the young man were, and the rose had opened, as if from the heat of the noonday sun.

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**Who acts:** elf, lips, noonday sun. · **What happens:** feel, be, open, heat · **To what, where:** leaf, rose

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elf of the Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elf, lips, noonday sun.), 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:pg27200:30:27
# text = He could feel through the leaf how hot the lips of the young man were, and the rose had opened, as if from the heat of the noonday sun.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
8	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	opened	open	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	noonday	noonday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	sun.	sun.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | could | elf |  |  | the leaf |  | as the heat of the noonday sun. | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent as heat=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the lips of the young man |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **open** | past · perfect · passive |  | the rose |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **heat** |  | the noonday sun. |  |  |  |  |  | nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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