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title: Very cautiously the large leaves were removed, and there appeared th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Very cautiously the large leaves were removed, and there appeared the feathery seed-crown of the despised dandelion. 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 50

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Very cautiously the large leaves were removed, and there appeared the feathery seed-crown of the despised dandelion.

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**What happens:** remove, appear, despise, crown · **To what, where:** large leaves, feathery seed crown, despised dandelion

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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: 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:pg27200:6:50
# text = Very cautiously the large leaves were removed, and there appeared the feathery seed-crown of the despised dandelion.
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	cautiously	cautiously	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	removed	remove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
11	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	feathery	feathery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	despised	despise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
20	dandelion	dandelion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remove** | past · passive |  | the large leaves |  |  |  | cautiously *property* | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **appear** | past |  | the feathery seed crown of the despised dandelion |  | there |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location crown=Theme |
| 3 | **despise** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **crown** |  |  | the despised dandelion |  |  |  |  | nom crown «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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