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title: Pure white curtains fluttered before the open windows, and beautiful… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Pure white curtains fluttered before the open windows, and beautiful flowers stood in shining, transparent vases; and in one of them, which looked as if it had been cut out of newly fallen snow, the apple-branch was placed, among some fresh, light twigs of beech. Who acts: Pure white curtains. A sen
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, sentence 9

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Pure white curtains fluttered before the open windows, and beautiful flowers stood in shining, transparent vases; and in one of them, which looked as if it had been cut out of newly fallen snow, the apple-branch was placed, among some fresh, light twigs of beech.

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**Who acts:** Pure white curtains · **What happens:** flutter, stand, shine, look, cut out, fall · **To what, where:** Pure white curtains, open windows, transparent vases, tale, fallen snow, apple branch

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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 (Pure white curtains), 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:pg27200:6:9
# text = Pure white curtains fluttered before the open windows, and beautiful flowers stood in shining, transparent vases; and in one of them, which looked as if it had been cut out of newly fallen snow, the apple-branch was placed, among some fresh, light twigs of beech.
1	Pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	curtains	curtain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
4	fluttered	flutter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	before	before	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	transparent	transparent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	vases	vas	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
29	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	parataxis	_	_
34	out	out	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	newly	newly	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	amod	_	_
38	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
41	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj:pass	_	_
44	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux:pass	_	_
45	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
47	among	among	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
48	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	52	det	_	_
49	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
51	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	twigs	twig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obl	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	beech	beech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flutter** | participle |  | Pure white curtains *not said here* |  | the open windows |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before window=Location |
| 2 | **stand** | past | Pure white curtains |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **shine** | gerund | Pure white curtains *not said here* | transparent vases |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent vas=Theme |
| 4 | **look** | past |  |  |  |  |  | in one of branches | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in one=Theme |
| 5 | **cut out** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive |  | tale |  | fallen snow |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **fall** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | newly *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **place** | past · passive |  | the apple branch |  | some fresh light twigs of beech |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme among twig=Destination |

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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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