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title: The girl stood still before the wonderful plant, for the green leave… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The girl stood still before the wonderful plant, for the green leaves exhaled a sweet and refreshing fragrance, and the flowers glittered and sparkled in the sunshine like colored flames, and the harmony of sweet sounds lingered round them as if each concealed within itself a deep fount of melody, w
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven, sentence 21

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The girl stood still before the wonderful plant, for the green leaves exhaled a sweet and refreshing fragrance, and the flowers glittered and sparkled in the sunshine like colored flames, and the harmony of sweet sounds lingered round them as if each concealed within itself a deep fount of melody, which thousands of years could not exhaust.

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**Who acts:** girl, green leaves, thousands · **What happens:** stand, exhale, refresh, glitter, sparkle, linger · **To what, where:** flowers, wonderful plant, sweet fragrance, sunshine, sweet sounds, each

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, green leaves, thousands), 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:pg27200:49:21
# text = The girl stood still before the wonderful plant, for the green leaves exhaled a sweet and refreshing fragrance, and the flowers glittered and sparkled in the sunshine like colored flames, and the harmony of sweet sounds lingered round them as if each concealed within itself a deep fount of melody, which thousands of years could not exhaust.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	still	still	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	before	before	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	exhaled	exhale	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	refreshing	refresh	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
19	fragrance	fragrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
24	glittered	glitter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	sparkled	sparkle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	like	like	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	colored	colored	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	harmony	harmony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	_
40	lingered	linger	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	acl	_	_
41	round	round	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obl	_	_
43	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
44	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
45	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	46	nsubj:pass	_	_
46	concealed	conceal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	advcl	_	_
47	within	within	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	46	obl	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	fount	fount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	melody	melody	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
55	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	61	obj	_	_
56	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	61	nsubj	_	_
57	of	of	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	nmod	_	_
59	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	61	aux	_	_
60	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	61	advmod	_	_
61	exhaust	exhaust	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | the girl | the flowers and the harmony of sweet sounds |  | the wonderful plant | still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before plant=Location |
| 2 | **exhale** | past | the green leaves | a sweet fragrance |  |  |  |  | vn exhale-40.1.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fragrance=Theme |
| 3 | **refresh** | gerund | the green leaves *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **glitter** | participle |  | the flowers and the harmony of sweet sounds *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **sparkle** | participle |  |  |  | the sunshine like colored flames |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sunshine=Location |
| 6 | **linger** | participle |  | sweet sounds *not said here* |  |  |  | round persons *= person* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **conceal** | participle · passive |  | each |  |  |  | within leaf | tree rules |
| 8 | **not** **exhaust** | could | thousands of years | melody |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus which=Experiencer |

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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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