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title: The little elf of the rose followed it, and flew from flower to flow… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The little elf of the rose followed it, and flew from flower to flower, telling each little spirit that dwelt in them the story of the murdered young man, whose head now formed part of the earth beneath them, and of the wicked brother and the poor sister. " Who acts: little elf, little spirit. A sen
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 70

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The little elf of the rose followed it, and flew from flower to flower, telling each little spirit that dwelt in them the story of the murdered young man, whose head now formed part of the earth beneath them, and of the wicked brother and the poor sister. "

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**Who acts:** little elf, little spirit · **What happens:** follow, fly, tell, dwell, murder, form · **To what, where:** plant, flower, little spirit, story, part · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (little elf, little spirit), 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:pg27200:30:70
# text = The little elf of the rose followed it, and flew from flower to flower, telling each little spirit that dwelt in them the story of the murdered young man, whose head now formed part of the earth beneath them, and of the wicked brother and the poor sister. "
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	elf	elf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
18	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
19	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	murdered	murder	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	amod	_	_
30	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
35	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	36	advmod	_	_
36	formed	form	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
37	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
41	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	52	punct	_	_
54	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	52	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | past | the little elf of the rose | plant |  |  |  | of the wicked brother and the poor sister | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme of brother=Trajectory |
| 2 | **fly** | past |  |  |  | flower |  | to flower | vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent from flower=Initial\_Location to flower=Destination |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund |  | each little spirit |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent spirit=Recipient |
| 4 | **dwell** | past | each little spirit | the story of the murdered young man and the murdered young man and head's head |  |  |  | in roses *= rose* | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme story=Location |
| 5 | **murder** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **form** | past |  | part of the earth beneath man |  |  | now |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location part=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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