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title: These loose, airy wool-flowers are very beautiful, and look like fin… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: These loose, airy wool-flowers are very beautiful, and look like fine snowy feathers or down. Who acts: These, loose airy wool flowers. 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 35

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These loose, airy wool-flowers are very beautiful, and look like fine snowy feathers or down.

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**Who acts:** These, loose airy wool flowers · **What happens:** flower, be, look

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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 (These, loose airy wool 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:pg27200:6:35
# text = These loose, airy wool-flowers are very beautiful, and look like fine snowy feathers or down.
1	These	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
2	loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	airy	airy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	wool	wool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	snowy	snowy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	down	down	ADV	RB	_	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flower** |  | These |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | loose airy wool flowers |  |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | like fine snowy feathers | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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