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title: One spring day the neighbor's boy brought him some field-flowers, an… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: One spring day the neighbor's boy brought him some field-flowers, and among them was one to which the root still adhered. Who acts: boy, flowers, root. 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.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Angel, sentence 24

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One spring day the neighbor's boy brought him some field-flowers, and among them was one to which the root still adhered.

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**Who acts:** boy, flowers, root · **What happens:** bring, be, adhere · **To what, where:** field flowers, sun

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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 (boy, flowers, root), 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:pg27200:4:24
# text = One spring day the neighbor's boy brought him some field-flowers, and among them was one to which the root still adhered.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
11	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
16	among	among	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	obl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	still	still	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	adhered	adhere	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past | the neighbor's boy | some field flowers | sun |  | day |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination flower=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | flowers *= flower* |  |  |  |  | among one | tree rules |
| 3 | **adhere** | past | the root |  |  |  | still |  | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to which=Co-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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