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title: Then she saw a large purple crocus jump into the middle of the table… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she saw a large purple crocus jump into the middle of the table where the playthings stood, go up to the doll's bedstead and draw back the curtains; there lay the sick flowers, but they got up directly, and nodded to the others as a sign that they wished to dance with them. Who acts: Ida, playt
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 91

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Then she saw a large purple crocus jump into the middle of the table where the playthings stood, go up to the doll's bedstead and draw back the curtains; there lay the sick flowers, but they got up directly, and nodded to the others as a sign that they wished to dance with them.

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**Who acts:** Ida, playthings · **What happens:** see, stand, go up, draw back, lay, get up · **To what, where:** large purple crocus jump, middle, curtains, sick flowers, others

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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 (Ida, playthings), 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:pg27200:73:91
# text = Then she saw a large purple crocus jump into the middle of the table where the playthings stood, go up to the doll's bedstead and draw back the curtains; there lay the sick flowers, but they got up directly, and nodded to the others as a sign that they wished to dance with them.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	purple	purple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	crocus	crocus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	jump	jump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	18	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	playthings	plaything	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
21	up	up	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	doll	doll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	bedstead	bedstead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	draw	draw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
29	back	back	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	curtains	curtain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
33	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	34	advmod	_	_
34	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
42	up	up	ADP	RP	_	41	compound:prt	_	_
43	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	nodded	nod	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
47	to	to	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obl	_	_
50	as	as	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
53	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	55	mark	_	_
54	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
55	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	advcl	_	_
56	to	to	PART	TO	_	57	mark	_	_
57	dance	dance	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	55	xcomp	_	_
58	with	with	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Ida | a large purple crocus jump |  | the middle of the table | then |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jump=Stimulus |
| 2 | **stand** | past | the playthings |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go up** | infinitive | Ida *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the doll's bedstead | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **draw back** | infinitive | Ida *not said here* | the curtains |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curtain=Theme |
| 5 | **lay** | infinitive | Ida *not said here* | the sick flowers |  | there |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Result |
| 6 | **get up** | past | playthings *= plaything* |  |  |  |  | directly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **nod** | past | Ida *not said here* |  | the others |  |  | as a sign | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to other=Recipient |
| 8 | **wish** | past | playthings *= plaything* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 9 | **dance** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | playthings *= plaything* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with flowers *= flower* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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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