--- title: She knew it would so soon fade; so she took only a single green leaf… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: She knew it would so soon fade; so she took only a single green leaf, carried it home, and laid it in her Bible, where it remained ever green, fresh, and unfading. Who acts: heart, flower. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven, with its dependen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/49/25/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [A Leaf From Heaven](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/49/) / 25 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven, sentence 25 She knew it would so soon fade; so she took only a single green leaf, carried it home, and laid it in her Bible, where it remained ever green, fresh, and unfading. **Who acts:** heart, flower · **What happens:** know, fade, take, carry, lay, remain · **To what, where:** single green leaf, flower, Bible 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 (heart, flower), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:49:25 # text = She knew it would so soon fade; so she took only a single green leaf, carried it home, and laid it in her Bible, where it remained ever green, fresh, and unfading. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 4 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 5 so so ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 6 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 7 advmod _ _ 7 fade fade VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 so so ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 12 only only ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 14 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 15 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 leaf leaf NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 home home ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 laid lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 Bible Bible PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 31 advmod _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 remained remain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 32 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 31 advmod _ _ 33 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 unfading unfading NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | past | heart | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **fade** | would | flower | | | | | soon *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **take** | past | heart | a single green leaf | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme | | 4 | **carry** | past | heart *not said here* | flower | | | | home *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 5 | **lay** | past | heart *not said here* | flower | | heart's Bible | | unfading *obl* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in bible=Destination | | 6 | **remain** | past | flower | | | | ever | green *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/49/24/) - next →: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/49/26/) - ↑ back to [A Leaf From Heaven](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/49/)