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title: The flowers were dancing gracefully on the floor, making turns and h… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The flowers were dancing gracefully on the floor, making turns and holding each other by their long green leaves as they swung round. Who acts: 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 ever
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 87

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The flowers were dancing gracefully on the floor, making turns and holding each other by their long green leaves as they swung round.

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**Who acts:** flowers · **What happens:** dance, make, hold, swing · **To what, where:** floor, turns, each

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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 (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:pg27200:73:87
# text = The flowers were dancing gracefully on the floor, making turns and holding each other by their long green leaves as they swung round.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	gracefully	gracefully	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
11	turns	turn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
14	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	13	obj	_	_
15	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	fixed	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
18	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	swung	swing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
24	round	round	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dance** | past · progressive | the flowers |  |  | the floor |  | gracefully *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on floor=Location |
| 2 | **make** | gerund | the flowers *not said here* | turns |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset turn=Product |
| 3 | **hold** | gerund | the flowers *not said here* | each |  |  |  | by flowers's long green leaves | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent each=Theme by leaf=Location |
| 4 | **swing** | past | flowers *= flower* |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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