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title: Large poppies and peonies had pea-shells for instruments, and blew i… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Large poppies and peonies had pea-shells for instruments, and blew into them till they were quite red in the face. Who acts: Large poppies, poppies. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 125

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Large poppies and peonies had pea-shells for instruments, and blew into them till they were quite red in the face.

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**Who acts:** Large poppies, poppies · **What happens:** have, blow, be · **To what, where:** pea shells, face

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Large poppies, poppies), 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:pg27200:73:125
# text = Large poppies and peonies had pea-shells for instruments, and blew into them till they were quite red in the face.
1	Large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	poppies	poppy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	peonies	peony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	pea	pea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	shells	shell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	instruments	instrument	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	advcl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Large poppies and peonies | pea shells |  |  |  | for instruments | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Patient |
| 2 | **blow** | past | Large poppies and peonies *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into poppies *= poppy* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent into they=Product |
| 3 | **is** | past | poppies *= poppy* |  |  | the face |  | red *property* | tree rules |

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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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