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title: The bunches of blue hyacinths and the little white snowdrops jingled… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The bunches of blue hyacinths and the little white snowdrops jingled their bell-like flowers, as if they were real bells. Who acts: bunches, flowers. 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 c
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 126

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The bunches of blue hyacinths and the little white snowdrops jingled their bell-like flowers, as if they were real bells.

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**Who acts:** bunches, flowers · **What happens:** jingle, be · **To what, where:** like flowers

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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 (bunches, flowers), 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:pg27200:73:126
# text = The bunches of blue hyacinths and the little white snowdrops jingled their bell-like flowers, as if they were real bells.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bunches	bunch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	hyacinths	hyacinth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	snowdrops	snowdrop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
11	jingled	jingle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
13	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
19	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jingle** | past | the bunches of blue hyacinths and the little white snowdrops | snowdrops's like flowers |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location flower=Theme |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | flowers *= flower* |  |  |  |  | as real bells | 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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