--- title: But during the night, the first after the sister's death, while the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: But during the night, the first after the sister's death, while the brother was sleeping in his bed, close to where he had placed the fragrant jasmine, every flower cup opened, and invisibly the little spirits stole out, armed with poisonous spears. Who acts: brother, flower cup, little spirits, sis --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/30/75/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Elf of the Rose](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/30/) / 75 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 75 But during the night, the first after the sister's death, while the brother was sleeping in his bed, close to where he had placed the fragrant jasmine, every flower cup opened, and invisibly the little spirits stole out, armed with poisonous spears. **Who acts:** brother, flower cup, little spirits, sister · **What happens:** sleep, place, open, steal out, die · **To what, where:** bed, fragrant jasmine 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 (brother, flower cup, little spirits, sister), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:30:75 # text = But during the night, the first after the sister's death, while the brother was sleeping in his bed, close to where he had placed the fragrant jasmine, every flower cup opened, and invisibly the little spirits stole out, armed with poisonous spears. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 2 during during ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 4 amod _ _ 8 after after ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 while while SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 sleeping sleep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 acl _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 24 to to SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 25 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 28 advmod _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 placed place VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 fragrant fragrant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 jasmine jasmine NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 35 det _ _ 34 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 cup cup NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 39 invisibly invisibly ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 spirits spirit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 nsubj _ _ 43 stole steal VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 advcl _ _ 44 out out ADP RP _ 43 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 46 armed armed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 advcl _ _ 47 with with ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 poisonous poisonous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 spears spear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 36 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sleep** | past · progressive | the brother | | | brother's bed | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location | | 2 | **place** | past · perfect | brother | the fragrant jasmine | | | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent jasmine=Theme | | 3 | **open** | past | every flower cup | | | | night | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **steal out** | past | the little spirits | | | | | invisibly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **die** | | the sister | | | | | | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/30/74/) - next →: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/30/76/) - ↑ back to [The Elf of the Rose](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/30/)