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title: The messenger described the flower so that is appearance could not b… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The messenger described the flower so that is appearance could not be mistaken. Who acts: messenger. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven, sentence 39

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The messenger described the flower so that is appearance could not be mistaken.

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**Who acts:** messenger · **What happens:** describe, be, not mistake · **To what, where:** flower, appearance

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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 (messenger), 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:pg27200:49:39
# text = The messenger described the flower so that is appearance could not be mistaken.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	messenger	messenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	described	describe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	mistaken	mistake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **describe** | past | the messenger | the flower |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent flower=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | that appearance |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **mistake** | could · passive |  | that appearance |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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