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title: Then the sunbeam kissed the lowly flower, and he kissed the blooming… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the sunbeam kissed the lowly flower, and he kissed the blooming apple-branch, upon whose leaves appeared a rosy blush. Who acts: sunbeam, flower, leaves. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, sentence 56

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Then the sunbeam kissed the lowly flower, and he kissed the blooming apple-branch, upon whose leaves appeared a rosy blush.

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**Who acts:** sunbeam, flower, leaves · **What happens:** kiss, bloom, appear · **To what, where:** lowly flower, blooming apple branch, rosy blush

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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 (sunbeam, flower, leaves), 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:pg27200:6:56
# text = Then the sunbeam kissed the lowly flower, and he kissed the blooming apple-branch, upon whose leaves appeared a rosy blush.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sunbeam	sunbeam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	lowly	lowly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	blooming	bloom	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	amod	_	_
14	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	rosy	rosy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	blush	blush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kiss** | past | the sunbeam | the lowly flower |  |  | then |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **kiss** | past | flower | the blooming apple branch |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **bloom** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **appear** | past | leaves | a rosy blush |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location blush=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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