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title: "Do you see," said the sunbeam, "do you see the beauty of these flow… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Do you see," said the sunbeam, "do you see the beauty of these flowers? do you see their powers of giving pleasure?" Who acts: you, sunbeam, powers. 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 e
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, sentence 39

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"Do you see," said the sunbeam, "do you see the beauty of these flowers? do you see their powers of giving pleasure?"

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**Who acts:** you, sunbeam, powers · **What happens:** see, say, give · **To what, where:** beauty, powers, pleasure · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, sunbeam, powers), 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:pg27200:6:39
# text = "Do you see," said the sunbeam, "do you see the beauty of these flowers? do you see their powers of giving pleasure?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sunbeam	sunbeam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
21	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	giving	give	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	_
28	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the sunbeam |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **see** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | the beauty of this flowers |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beauty=Stimulus |
| 4 | **see** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | children's powers |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer power=Stimulus |
| 5 | **give** *in a quote* | gerund | children's powers *not said here* | pleasure |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Theme |

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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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