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title: Each leaf was fresh, and each flower was like a beautiful female hea… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Each leaf was fresh, and each flower was like a beautiful female head; some with dark and sparkling eyes, and others with eyes that were wonderfully blue and clear. Who acts: leaf, flower, others. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, sentence 26

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Each leaf was fresh, and each flower was like a beautiful female head; some with dark and sparkling eyes, and others with eyes that were wonderfully blue and clear.

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**Who acts:** leaf, flower, others · **What happens:** be, sparkle · **To what, where:** eyes

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leaf, flower, others), 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:pg27200:38:26
# text = Each leaf was fresh, and each flower was like a beautiful female head; some with dark and sparkling eyes, and others with eyes that were wonderfully blue and clear.
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
7	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	female	female	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	nsubj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	sparkling	sparkle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
21	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
24	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | each leaf |  |  |  |  | fresh *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | each flower |  |  |  |  | like a beautiful female head | tree rules |
| 3 | **sparkle** | gerund | each leaf *not said here* | eyes |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | others |  |  |  |  | with eyes; blue, wonderfully *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | others *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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