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title: With pious gratitude the girl looked upon this glorious work of God,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: With pious gratitude the girl looked upon this glorious work of God, and bent down over one of the branches, that she might examine the flower and inhale the sweet perfume. Who acts: girl, God. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven, with its dep
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven, sentence 22

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With pious gratitude the girl looked upon this glorious work of God, and bent down over one of the branches, that she might examine the flower and inhale the sweet perfume.

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**Who acts:** girl, God · **What happens:** look, bend down, examine, inhale, work · **To what, where:** flower, sweet perfume

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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, God), 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:pg27200:49:22
# text = With pious gratitude the girl looked upon this glorious work of God, and bent down over one of the branches, that she might examine the flower and inhale the sweet perfume.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	pious	pious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
9	glorious	glorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	bent	bend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
16	down	down	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	over	over	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	examine	examine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	parataxis	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	inhale	inhale	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	perfume	perfume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | the girl |  |  |  |  | with pious gratitude; upon this glorious work of God | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon work=Theme |
| 2 | **bend down** | participle | the girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  | over one of the branches | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over one=Location |
| 3 | **examine** | might | girl | the flower |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme |
| 4 | **inhale** | present | girl *not said here* | the sweet perfume |  |  |  |  | vn exhale-40.1.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent perfume=Theme |
| 5 | **work** |  | God |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: of=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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