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title: "But the beautiful thyme of last summer, where is that? and the lili… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "But the beautiful thyme of last summer, where is that? and the lilies-of-the-valley, which last year covered the earth with their bloom? and the wild apple-tree with its lovely blossoms, and all the glory of the wood, which has flourished year after year? even what may have but now sprouted forth c
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 78

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"But the beautiful thyme of last summer, where is that? and the lilies-of-the-valley, which last year covered the earth with their bloom? and the wild apple-tree with its lovely blossoms, and all the glory of the wood, which has flourished year after year? even what may have but now sprouted forth could be with us here."

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**Who acts:** lilies, wood · **What happens:** be, cover, flourish, have, sprout, bloom · **To what, where:** that, valley, wood, glory

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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 (lilies, wood), 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:pg27200:69:78
# text = "But the beautiful thyme of last summer, where is that? and the lilies-of-the-valley, which last year covered the earth with their bloom? and the wild apple-tree with its lovely blossoms, and all the glory of the wood, which has flourished year after year? even what may have but now sprouted forth could be with us here."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	thyme	thyme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	12	advmod	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	72	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	lilies	lily	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	72	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obj	_	_
25	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl:unmarked	_	_
27	covered	cover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	parataxis	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	bloom	bloom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	39	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
36	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
37	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	parataxis	_	_
40	with	with	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
42	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
46	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	48	det:predet	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	glory	glory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
53	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	55	nsubj:pass	_	_
54	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	55	aux	_	_
55	flourished	flourish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	51	acl:relcl	_	_
56	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl:unmarked	_	_
57	after	after	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	48	punct	_	_
60	even	even	ADV	RB	_	61	advmod	_	_
61	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	63	obj	_	_
62	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	63	aux	_	_
63	have	have	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	48	parataxis	_	_
64	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	66	cc	_	_
65	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	66	advmod	_	_
66	sprouted	sprout	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	63	conj	_	_
67	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	66	advmod	_	_
68	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	71	aux	_	_
69	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	71	cop	_	_
70	with	with	ADP	IN	_	71	case	_	_
71	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	_
72	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
73	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
74	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	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 |  | that |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cover** *in a quote* | past |  | the valley |  |  | year |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **flourish** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | the wood |  |  | year |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** *in a quote* | may |  | all glory of the wood |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |
| 5 | **sprout** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  | now | forth *property* | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
| 6 | **is** *in a quote* | could |  |  |  |  |  | with us | tree rules |
| 7 | **bloom** *in a quote* |  | lilies *= lily* |  |  |  |  |  | nom bloom «process intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **glory** *in a quote* |  | the wood |  |  |  |  |  | nom glory «state intransitive»: of=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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