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title: He placed it in his prayer-book, and when he opened it in distant la… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He placed it in his prayer-book, and when he opened it in distant lands it was always at the place where the flower of remembrance was lying; and the more he looked at it the fresher it became, so that he could almost smell the fragrance of the woods at home. Who acts: boy, breast, flower. A sentenc
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 106

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He placed it in his prayer-book, and when he opened it in distant lands it was always at the place where the flower of remembrance was lying; and the more he looked at it the fresher it became, so that he could almost smell the fragrance of the woods at home.

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**Who acts:** boy, breast, flower · **What happens:** place, open, be, lie, look, become · **To what, where:** breast, prayer book, distant lands, place, fresher, fragrance

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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 (boy, breast, flower), 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:pg27200:72:106
# text = He placed it in his prayer-book, and when he opened it in distant lands it was always at the place where the flower of remembrance was lying; and the more he looked at it the fresher it became, so that he could almost smell the fragrance of the woods at home.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
6	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
20	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	23	advmod	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
24	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	30	advmod	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	remembrance	remembrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	36	advmod	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
37	at	at	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obl	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	fresher	fresher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl:unmarked	_	_
41	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
44	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	49	mark	_	_
45	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	44	fixed	_	_
46	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
47	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
48	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
49	smell	smell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	conj	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	fragrance	fragrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nmod	_	_
55	at	at	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **place** | past | boy | breast |  | boy's prayer book |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in book=Destination |
| 2 | **open** | past | boy | breast |  | distant lands and the place |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent it=Theme in land=Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | breast |  |  | the place |  | always *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **lie** | past · progressive | the flower of remembrance |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **look** | past | boy | the fresher |  |  |  | at breast | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme |
| 6 | **become** | past | breast | the fresher *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient fresher=Result |
| 7 | **smell** | could | boy | the fragrance of the woods |  | home |  | almost *property* | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fragrance=Theme at home=Location |

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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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