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title: One shoot after another sprouted forth, and little white buds blosso… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: One shoot after another sprouted forth, and little white buds blossomed, which the poor girl fondly kissed. Who acts: One shoot, poor 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 61

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One shoot after another sprouted forth, and little white buds blossomed, which the poor girl fondly kissed.

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**Who acts:** One shoot, poor girl · **What happens:** sprout, blossom, girl, kiss · **To what, where:** little white buds

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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 (One shoot, poor 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:pg27200:30:61
# text = One shoot after another sprouted forth, and little white buds blossomed, which the poor girl fondly kissed.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	shoot	shoot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	nmod	_	_
5	sprouted	sprout	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	buds	bud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
12	blossomed	blossom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
18	fondly	fondly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sprout** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
| 2 | **blossom** | participle |  | little white buds *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **girl** |  | One shoot after another and little white buds and the poor girl |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **kiss** | past | the poor girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fondly *property* | vn marry-36.2 «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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