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title: And the jasmine opened its large white bells, and spread forth its s… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And the jasmine opened its large white bells, and spread forth its sweet fragrance; it had no other way of showing its grief for the dead. Who acts: jasmine, other way. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 68

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And the jasmine opened its large white bells, and spread forth its sweet fragrance; it had no other way of showing its grief for the dead.

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**Who acts:** jasmine, other way · **What happens:** open, spread, have, show · **To what, where:** large white bells, sweet fragrance, other way, grief

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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 (jasmine, other way), 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:pg27200:30:68
# text = And the jasmine opened its large white bells, and spread forth its sweet fragrance; it had no other way of showing its grief for the dead.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	jasmine	jasmine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
6	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	fragrance	fragrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
20	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	showing	show	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	obl	_	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 | **open** | past | the jasmine | jasmine's large white bells |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme |
| 2 | **spread** | past | the jasmine *not said here* | jasmine's sweet fragrance |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fragrance=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | jasmine | no other way |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient |
| 4 | **show** | gerund | no other way *not said here* | jasmine's grief |  |  |  | for the dead | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grief=Recipient |

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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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