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title: And the little girl showed everything to the boy, and the elder-tree… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And the little girl showed everything to the boy, and the elder-tree continued to breathe forth sweet perfume, while the red flag with the white cross was streaming in the wind; it was the flag under which the old sailor had served. Who acts: little girl, elder tree, red flag, tree. A sentence of «F
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 103

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And the little girl showed everything to the boy, and the elder-tree continued to breathe forth sweet perfume, while the red flag with the white cross was streaming in the wind; it was the flag under which the old sailor had served.

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**Who acts:** little girl, elder tree, red flag, tree, old sailor · **What happens:** show, continue, breathe, stream, be, serve · **To what, where:** everything, boy, sweet perfume, wind, flag

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little girl, elder tree, red flag, tree), 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:pg27200:72:103
# text = And the little girl showed everything to the boy, and the elder-tree continued to breathe forth sweet perfume, while the red flag with the white cross was streaming in the wind; it was the flag under which the old sailor had served.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	continued	continue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	breathe	breathe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	perfume	perfume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
23	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	cross	cross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	streaming	stream	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
41	under	under	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	47	obl	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	sailor	sailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
46	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
47	served	serve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	40	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | past | the little girl | everything | the boy |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent everything=Topic to boy=Recipient |
| 2 | **continue** | participle | the elder tree |  |  |  |  |  | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **breathe** | to-infinitive | the elder tree *not said here* | sweet perfume |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent perfume=Theme |
| 4 | **stream** | past · progressive | the red flag with the white cross |  |  | the wind |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wind=Location |
| 5 | **is a** | past | tree | the flag |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **serve** | past · perfect | the old sailor |  |  | the flag |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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