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title: Have you not often seen that when the wind blows they nod at one ano… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Have you not often seen that when the wind blows they nod at one another, and rustle all their green leaves?" Who acts: you, wind, 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 clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 50

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Have you not often seen that when the wind blows they nod at one another, and rustle all their green leaves?"

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**Who acts:** you, wind, flowers · **What happens:** not see, blow, nod, rustle · **To what, where:** green leaves

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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 (you, wind, 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:pg27200:73:50
# text = Have you not often seen that when the wind blows they nod at one another, and rustle all their green leaves?"
1	Have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	often	often	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	10	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	blows	blow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	nod	nod	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	_
15	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	rustle	rustle	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
19	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	22	det:predet	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **see** | present · perfect | you |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **blow** | present | the wind |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **nod** | present | flowers *= flower* |  |  |  |  | at one | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **rustle** | infinitive |  | flowers's green leaves |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location leaf=Theme |

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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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