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title: During that time the flower has stood in the window, withered and fo… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: During that time the flower has stood in the window, withered and forgotten, till at length cast out among the sweepings into the street, on the day of the lodgers' removal. Who acts: flower, lodgers. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Angel, with its depen
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Angel, sentence 32

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During that time the flower has stood in the window, withered and forgotten, till at length cast out among the sweepings into the street, on the day of the lodgers' removal.

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**Who acts:** flower, lodgers · **What happens:** stand, wither, forget, cast out, remove · **To what, where:** window, length, street

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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, lodgers), 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:pg27200:4:32
# text = During that time the flower has stood in the window, withered and forgotten, till at length cast out among the sweepings into the street, on the day of the lodgers' removal.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	stood	stand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	withered	wither	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	till	till	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	cast	cast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	among	among	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	sweepings	sweeping	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	lodgers	lodger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	'	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	removal	removal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | present · perfect | the flower |  |  | the window | time |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in window=Location |
| 2 | **wither** | past | the flower *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **forget** | participle | the flower *not said here* |  |  |  | till length; day |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **cast out** | participle |  | length *not said here* |  | the street |  | among the sweepings | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent into street=Product |
| 5 | **remove** |  | the lodgers |  |  |  |  |  | nom removal «act 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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