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title: The flower entwined itself even in his dreams--for him it bloomed, f… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The flower entwined itself even in his dreams--for him it bloomed, for him spread its perfume. Who acts: flower, boy, hand. 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 29

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The flower entwined itself even in his dreams--for him it bloomed, for him spread its perfume.

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**Who acts:** flower, boy, hand · **What happens:** entwine, bloom, spread, dream, perfume · **To what, where:** hand, dreams, boy, perfume

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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 (flower, boy, hand), 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:pg27200:4:29
# text = The flower entwined itself even in his dreams--for him it bloomed, for him spread its perfume.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	entwined	entwine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	even	even	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	dreams	dream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	bloomed	bloom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
18	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	perfume	perfume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **entwine** | past | the flower | hand |  | boy's dreams |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Patient |
| 2 | **bloom** | participle · passive |  | boy |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **spread** | past | boy | hand's perfume |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location perfume=Theme |
| 4 | **dream** |  | boy |  |  |  |  |  | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **perfume** |  | hand |  |  |  |  |  | nom perfume «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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