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title: If it was spring-time, he knew of three strawberry-plants in blossom… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: If it was spring-time, he knew of three strawberry-plants in blossom, which would certainly bear fruit. Who acts: toy, boy, blossom. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 14

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If it was spring-time, he knew of three strawberry-plants in blossom, which would certainly bear fruit.

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**Who acts:** toy, boy, blossom · **What happens:** be, know, bear · **To what, where:** spring time, fruit

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (toy, boy, blossom), 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:pg27200:5:14
# text = If it was spring-time, he knew of three strawberry-plants in blossom, which would certainly bear fruit.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
12	strawberry	strawberry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	blossom	blossom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl:relcl	_	_
22	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	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** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | toy | spring time |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | past | boy |  |  |  |  | of three strawberry plants in blossom | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of plant=Stimulus |
| 3 | **bear** | would | blossom | fruit |  |  |  | certainly *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient |

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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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