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title: Why, when grandmother's tears fall upon the rose, and she is looking… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Why, when grandmother's tears fall upon the rose, and she is looking at it, the rose revives, and fills the room with its fragrance; the walls vanish as in a mist, and all around her is the glorious green wood, where in summer the sunlight streams through thick foliage; and grandmother, why she is y
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 176

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Why, when grandmother's tears fall upon the rose, and she is looking at it, the rose revives, and fills the room with its fragrance; the walls vanish as in a mist, and all around her is the glorious green wood, where in summer the sunlight streams through thick foliage; and grandmother, why she is young again, a charming maiden, fresh as a rose, with round, rosy cheeks, fair, bright ringlets, and a figure pretty and graceful; but the eyes, those mild, saintly eyes, are the same,--they have been left to grandmother.

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**Who acts:** tears, GRANDMOTHER, rose, walls, those, eyes · **What happens:** fall, look, revive, fill, vanish, be · **To what, where:** figure, rose, room, glorious green wood, tears, grandmother

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tears, GRANDMOTHER, rose, walls), 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:pg27200:46:176
# text = Why, when grandmother's tears fall upon the rose, and she is looking at it, the rose revives, and fills the room with its fragrance; the walls vanish as in a mist, and all around her is the glorious green wood, where in summer the sunlight streams through thick foliage; and grandmother, why she is young again, a charming maiden, fresh as a rose, with round, rosy cheeks, fair, bright ringlets, and a figure pretty and graceful; but the eyes, those mild, saintly eyes, are the same,--they have been left to grandmother.
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	7	mark	_	_
4	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	revives	revive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	fills	fill	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	fragrance	fragrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
33	vanish	vanish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
34	as	as	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	mist	mist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
40	all	all	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
41	around	around	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obl	_	_
43	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
45	glorious	glorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
46	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
49	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	47	acl	_	_
50	in	in	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
53	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	compound	_	_
54	streams	stream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nmod	_	_
55	through	through	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	foliage	foliage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
60	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
62	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	65	advmod	_	_
63	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	65	nsubj	_	_
64	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	65	cop	_	_
65	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	nmod	_	_
66	again	again	ADV	RB	_	65	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	70	punct	_	_
68	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	70	det	_	_
69	charming	charming	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	70	amod	_	_
70	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	72	punct	_	_
72	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	70	appos	_	_
73	as	as	ADP	IN	_	75	case	_	_
74	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	75	det	_	_
75	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	72	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
76	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	81	punct	_	_
77	with	with	ADP	IN	_	81	case	_	_
78	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	81	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
79	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	78	punct	_	_
80	rosy	rosy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	81	amod	_	_
81	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	72	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
82	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	86	punct	_	_
83	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	86	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
84	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	83	punct	_	_
85	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	86	amod	_	_
86	ringlets	ringlet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	81	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
87	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	90	punct	_	_
88	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	90	cc	_	_
89	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	90	det	_	_
90	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
91	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	90	amod	_	_
92	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	93	cc	_	_
93	graceful	graceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	91	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
94	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	107	punct	_	_
95	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	107	cc	_	_
96	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	97	det	_	_
97	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	107	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
98	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	103	punct	_	_
99	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	103	nsubj	_	_
100	mild	mild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	103	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
101	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	103	punct	_	_
102	saintly	saintly	ADV	RB	_	103	advmod	_	_
103	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	97	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
104	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	97	punct	_	_
105	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	107	cop	_	_
106	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	107	det	_	_
107	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	91	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
108	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	113	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
109	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	113	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
110	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	113	nsubj	_	_
111	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	113	aux	_	_
112	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	113	aux:pass	_	_
113	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	90	acl	_	_
114	to	to	ADP	IN	_	115	case	_	_
115	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	113	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
116	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | present | grandmother's tears | a figure |  | the rose |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon rose=Location |
| 2 | **look** | present · progressive | GRANDMOTHER |  |  |  |  | at rose | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme |
| 3 | **revive** | present | the rose |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **fill** | present | the rose *not said here* | the room |  |  |  | with rose's fragrance | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent room=Patient with fragrance=Instrument |
| 5 | **vanish** | present | the walls |  |  |  |  | as a mist | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is a** | present |  | the glorious green wood |  |  |  | all *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** | present | GRANDMOTHER |  |  |  | again | young *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **eye** |  | those |  |  |  |  | saintly *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **is** | present | the eyes and mild eyes |  |  |  |  | same *property* | tree rules |
| 10 | **leave** | present · perfect · passive |  | tears *= tear* | grandmother |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to grandmother=Recipient |

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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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