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title: This is a splendid spring day for a poet, the air is so remarkably c… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: This is a splendid spring day for a poet, the air is so remarkably clear, the clouds are so beautiful, and the green grass has such a sweet smell. Who acts: This, air, clouds, green grass. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, with its 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 27

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This is a splendid spring day for a poet, the air is so remarkably clear, the clouds are so beautiful, and the green grass has such a sweet smell.

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**Who acts:** This, air, clouds, green grass · **What happens:** be, have · **To what, where:** splendid spring day, sweet smell

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, air, clouds, green grass), 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:pg27200:44:27
# text = This is a splendid spring day for a poet, the air is so remarkably clear, the clouds are so beautiful, and the green grass has such a sweet smell.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	parataxis	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	remarkably	remarkably	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
29	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	32	det:predet	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | This | a splendid spring day |  |  |  | for a poet | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | the air |  |  |  |  | clear, remarkably *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | the clouds |  |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | present | the green grass | such sweet smell |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smell=Patient |

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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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