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title: The beautiful Alpine roses bloomed, and joyous, laughing Babette, wa… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The beautiful Alpine roses bloomed, and joyous, laughing Babette, was like the early spring, which makes all the birds sing of summer time and bridal days. Who acts: beautiful Alpine roses, early spring, birds. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VIII. What Fres
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VIII. What Fresh News the Parlor-cat Had to Tell, sentence 30

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The beautiful Alpine roses bloomed, and joyous, laughing Babette, was like the early spring, which makes all the birds sing of summer time and bridal days.

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**Who acts:** beautiful Alpine roses, early spring, birds · **What happens:** bloom, laugh, be, make, sing · **To what, where:** beautiful Alpine roses, Babette

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VIII. What Fresh News the Parlor-cat Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful Alpine roses, early spring, birds), 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:pg27200:59:30
# text = The beautiful Alpine roses bloomed, and joyous, laughing Babette, was like the early spring, which makes all the birds sing of summer time and bridal days.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	Alpine	alpine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
5	bloomed	bloom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	joyous	joyous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	advcl	_	_
11	Babette	Babette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	23	det:predet	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	sing	sing	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	xcomp	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	bridal	bridal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bloom** | participle |  | the beautiful Alpine roses *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **laugh** | gerund |  | Babette |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent babette=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | the beautiful Alpine roses |  |  |  | like the early spring |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | present | the early spring |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | all birds |  |  |  | time |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |

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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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