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title: Here and there the cypress and pomegranate blossoms peep forth; and… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Here and there the cypress and pomegranate blossoms peep forth; and it is almost as warm as an Italian climate. Who acts: cypress blossoms, pomegranate. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 43

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Here and there the cypress and pomegranate blossoms peep forth; and it is almost as warm as an Italian climate.

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**Who acts:** cypress blossoms, pomegranate · **What happens:** peep, be

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cypress blossoms, pomegranate), 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:pg27200:55:43
# text = Here and there the cypress and pomegranate blossoms peep forth; and it is almost as warm as an Italian climate.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	conj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	cypress	cypress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	pomegranate	pomegranate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	peep	peep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	as	as	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Italian	Italian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	climate	climate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **peep** | present | the cypress blossoms |  |  | here |  | forth *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | pomegranate |  |  |  |  | as a Italian climate; warm *property* | 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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