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title: No one ever places it in a nosegay; it is often trodden under foot,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: No one ever places it in a nosegay; it is often trodden under foot, there are so many of them; and when they run to seed, they have flowers like wool, which fly away in little pieces over the roads, and cling to the dresses of the people. Who acts: many, dandelions, flowers. A sentence of «Fairy Tal
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, sentence 29

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No one ever places it in a nosegay; it is often trodden under foot, there are so many of them; and when they run to seed, they have flowers like wool, which fly away in little pieces over the roads, and cling to the dresses of the people.

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**Who acts:** many, dandelions, flowers · **What happens:** tread, be, run, have, fly away · **To what, where:** deal, foot, flowers, little pieces

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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 (many, dandelions, flowers), 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:pg27200:6:29
# text = No one ever places it in a nosegay; it is often trodden under foot, there are so many of them; and when they run to seed, they have flowers like wool, which fly away in little pieces over the roads, and cling to the dresses of the people.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
4	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	nosegay	nosegay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
12	often	often	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	trodden	tread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
14	under	under	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
18	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
25	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	27	mark	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
33	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
34	like	like	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	wool	wool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj	_	_
38	fly	fly	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
39	away	away	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	_
43	over	over	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	cling	cling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
49	to	to	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	dresses	dress	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	nmod	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tread** | present · passive |  | deal |  | foot |  | often *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | present | many of places |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **run** | present | dandelions *= dandelion* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | present | dandelions *= dandelion* | flowers |  |  |  | like wool; cling to the dresses of the people *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient |
| 5 | **fly away** | present | flowers |  |  | little pieces over the roads |  | away *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in piece=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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