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title: The blue violets represent little naval cadets, and dance with hyaci… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The blue violets represent little naval cadets, and dance with hyacinths and crocuses which they call young ladies. Who acts: blue violets, violets. 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 23

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The blue violets represent little naval cadets, and dance with hyacinths and crocuses which they call young ladies.

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**Who acts:** blue violets, violets · **What happens:** represent, call · **To what, where:** little naval cadets, hyacinths · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (blue violets, violets), 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:pg27200:73:23
# text = The blue violets represent little naval cadets, and dance with hyacinths and crocuses which they call young ladies.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	violets	violet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	represent	represent	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	naval	naval	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	cadets	cadet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	hyacinths	hyacinth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	crocuses	crocus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obj	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
18	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **represent** | present | the blue violets | little naval cadets |  |  |  | dance with hyacinths and crocuses *obl* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot cadet=Theme |
| 2 | **call** | present | violets *= violet* | hyacinths and crocuses |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme lady=Result |

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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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