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title: The bitter tears fell upon the jasmine twig, and each day, as she be… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The bitter tears fell upon the jasmine twig, and each day, as she became paler and paler, the sprig appeared to grow greener and fresher. Who acts: bitter tears, girl, sprig. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, with its dependency tree and t
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 60

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The bitter tears fell upon the jasmine twig, and each day, as she became paler and paler, the sprig appeared to grow greener and fresher.

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**Who acts:** bitter tears, girl, sprig · **What happens:** fall, become, appear, grow · **To what, where:** jasmine twig

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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 (bitter tears, girl, sprig), 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:pg27200:30:60
# text = The bitter tears fell upon the jasmine twig, and each day, as she became paler and paler, the sprig appeared to grow greener and fresher.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	jasmine	jasmine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	twig	twig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
17	paler	pale	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	xcomp	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	paler	pale	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sprig	sprig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	greener	green	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	xcomp	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	fresher	fresh	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | the bitter tears |  |  | the jasmine twig | day |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon twig=Location |
| 2 | **become** | past | girl |  |  |  |  | pale *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **appear** | past | the sprig |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **grow** | to-infinitive | the sprig *not said here* |  |  |  |  | green *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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