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title: Every morning he flew to the window of the poor girl, and always fou… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Every morning he flew to the window of the poor girl, and always found her weeping by the flower pot. Who acts: elf, girl. 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 of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 59

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Every morning he flew to the window of the poor girl, and always found her weeping by the flower pot.

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**Who acts:** elf, girl · **What happens:** fly, find, weep · **To what, where:** girl

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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, girl), 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:pg27200:30:59
# text = Every morning he flew to the window of the poor girl, and always found her weeping by the flower pot.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	15	advmod	_	_
15	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	weeping	weep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	xcomp	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | elf |  |  |  | morning | to the window of the poor girl *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to window=Result |
| 2 | **find** | past | elf *not said here* | girl |  |  |  | always *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent she=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 3 | **weep** | gerund | girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the flower pot | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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