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title: "But where is the little blue flower that grows by the water?" asked… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "But where is the little blue flower that grows by the water?" asked the oak, "and the purple bell-flower, and the daisy?" Who acts: little blue flower, oak. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 75

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"But where is the little blue flower that grows by the water?" asked the oak, "and the purple bell-flower, and the daisy?"

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**Who acts:** little blue flower, oak · **What happens:** be, grow, ask · **To what, where:** little blue flower · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little blue flower, oak), 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:pg27200:69:75
# text = "But where is the little blue flower that grows by the water?" asked the oak, "and the purple bell-flower, and the daisy?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
3	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	8	advmod	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
16	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
23	purple	purple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	daisy	daisy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | the little blue flower |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** *in a quote* | present | the little blue flower |  |  |  |  | by the water | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by water=Location |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the oak and the purple bell flower |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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