--- title: "It is beautiful here in spring," said the little girl, and they wer… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "It is beautiful here in spring," said the little girl, and they were again in the green beechwood, where the thyme breathed forth sweet fragrance at their feet, and the pink anemones looked lovely in the green moss. " Who acts: head, little girl, flowers, thyme. 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" **Who acts:** head, little girl, flowers, thyme, pink anemones · **What happens:** be, say, breathe, look · **To what, where:** green beechwood, sweet fragrance, feet · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (head, little girl, flowers, thyme), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:72:85 # text = "It is beautiful here in spring," said the little girl, and they were again in the green beechwood, where the thyme breathed forth sweet fragrance at their feet, and the pink anemones looked lovely in the green moss. " 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 ccomp _ _ 5 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 10 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 17 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 18 again again ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 beechwood beechwood NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 27 advmod _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 thyme thyme NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 breathed breathe VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 parataxis _ _ 28 forth forth ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 fragrance fragrance NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 at at ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 pink pink ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 anemones anemone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ _ 39 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 40 lovely lovely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 xcomp _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 moss moss NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ 46 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | head | | | here | spring | beautiful *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the little girl | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | past | flowers *= flower* | | | the green beechwood | again | | tree rules | | 4 | **breathe** | past | the thyme | sweet fragrance | | flowers's feet | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fragrance=Theme | | 5 | **look** | past | the pink anemones | | | | | in the green moss; lovely *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in moss=Theme | 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. **Text:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. 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