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title: All were brothers, and the sunbeam kissed them--the poor flowers as… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: All were brothers, and the sunbeam kissed them--the poor flowers as well as the rich. Who acts: brothers. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, sentence 23

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All were brothers, and the sunbeam kissed them--the poor flowers as well as the rich.

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**Who acts:** brothers · **What happens:** be, kiss · **To what, where:** brothers, branches

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers), 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:pg27200:6:23
# text = All were brothers, and the sunbeam kissed them--the poor flowers as well as the rich.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sunbeam	sunbeam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
14	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	18	cc	_	_
15	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	fixed	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | all brothers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **kiss** | past | all brothers | branches *= branch* |  |  |  | the poor flowers *obl* | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent |

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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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