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title: But the tree would not rejoice, though it grew taller every day; and… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But the tree would not rejoice, though it grew taller every day; and, winter and summer, its dark-green foliage might be seen in the forest, while passers by would say, "What a beautiful tree!" Who acts: tree, life, passers. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, T
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 50

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But the tree would not rejoice, though it grew taller every day; and, winter and summer, its dark-green foliage might be seen in the forest, while passers by would say, "What a beautiful tree!"

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**Who acts:** tree, life, passers · **What happens:** not rejoice, grow, see, say, tree · **To what, where:** winter, forest · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tree, life, passers), 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:pg27200:33:50
# text = But the tree would not rejoice, though it grew taller every day; and, winter and summer, its dark-green foliage might be seen in the forest, while passers by would say, "What a beautiful tree!"
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	rejoice	rejoice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	taller	tall	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	xcomp	_	_
12	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
22	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	foliage	foliage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
26	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
34	passers	passer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
35	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
36	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
39	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	43	nsubj	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **rejoice** | would | the tree |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **grow** | past | life |  |  |  | day | tall *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | might · passive |  | winter and summer and life's green foliage |  | the forest |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 4 | **say** *speech: express* | would | passers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **tree** *in a quote* |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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