---
title: The angel gathered also some beautiful flowers, as well as a few hum… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The angel gathered also some beautiful flowers, as well as a few humble buttercups and heart's-ease. Who acts: angel. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Angel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/4/10/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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 Angel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/4/) / 10

# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Angel, sentence 10

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The angel gathered also some beautiful flowers, as well as a few humble buttercups and heart's-ease.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** angel · **What happens:** gather · **To what, where:** beautiful flowers

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Angel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (angel), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg27200:4:10
# text = The angel gathered also some beautiful flowers, as well as a few humble buttercups and heart's-ease.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	angel	angel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	also	also	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	15	cc	_	_
10	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	fixed	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	humble	humble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	buttercups	buttercup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	heart's	heart's	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	ease	ease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gather** | past | the angel | some beautiful flowers as a few humble buttercups and heart's ease |  |  |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/4/9/)
- next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/4/11/)
- ↑ back to [The Angel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/4/)