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title: The leaves of the hymn-book are dust; and the rose, with all its rec… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The leaves of the hymn-book are dust; and the rose, with all its recollections, has crumbled to dust also. Who acts: leaves, dust, rose. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 195

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The leaves of the hymn-book are dust; and the rose, with all its recollections, has crumbled to dust also.

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**Who acts:** leaves, dust, rose · **What happens:** be, crumble, dust, recollect · **To what, where:** dust, rose

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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 (leaves, dust, rose), 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:pg27200:46:195
# text = The leaves of the hymn-book are dust; and the rose, with all its recollections, has crumbled to dust also.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	hymn	hymn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
17	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	recollections	recollection	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
20	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	crumbled	crumble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	dust	dust	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	also	also	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the leaves of the hymn book | dust |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **crumble** | present · perfect · passive | dust *not said here* | the rose and rose's recollections |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **dust** | to-infinitive | dust *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **recollect** |  | rose |  |  |  |  |  | nom recollection «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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