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title: "Poor rose-bush!" said the child, "let us take it with us to heaven,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Poor rose-bush!" said the child, "let us take it with us to heaven, that it may bloom above in God's garden." Who acts: Poor rose bush, us, bush. 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 8

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"Poor rose-bush!" said the child, "let us take it with us to heaven, that it may bloom above in God's garden."

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**Who acts:** Poor rose bush, us, bush · **What happens:** say, let, take, bloom · **To what, where:** child, us, bush, heaven, garden · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Poor rose bush, us, bush), 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:pg27200:4:8
# text = "Poor rose-bush!" said the child, "let us take it with us to heaven, that it may bloom above in God's garden."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
14	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	bloom	bloom	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
26	above	above	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Poor rose bush | the child |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* | bush |  | heaven |  | with us | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to heaven=Destination |
| 4 | **bloom** *in a quote* | may | bush |  |  | God's garden |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above garden=Location |

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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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