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title: Oh, what sweet fragrance there was in his chambers! and how clean an… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Oh, what sweet fragrance there was in his chambers! and how clean and beautiful were the walls! for they were the blushing leaves of the rose. Who acts: walls. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 5

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Oh, what sweet fragrance there was in his chambers! and how clean and beautiful were the walls! for they were the blushing leaves of the rose.

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**Who acts:** walls · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** walls

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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 (walls), 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:pg27200:30:5
# text = Oh, what sweet fragrance there was in his chambers! and how clean and beautiful were the walls! for they were the blushing leaves of the rose.
1	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	nsubj	_	_
4	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	fragrance	fragrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	7	expl	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	chambers	chamber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
14	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	blushing	blushing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the walls |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | walls *= wall* |  |  |  |  | for the blushing leaves; of the rose | 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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