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title: She specially loved roses, and therefore she possessed the most beau… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She specially loved roses, and therefore she possessed the most beautiful varieties of this flower, from the wild hedge-rose, with its apple-scented leaves, to the splendid Provence rose. Who acts: She. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Loveliest Rose in t
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Loveliest Rose in the World, sentence 2

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She specially loved roses, and therefore she possessed the most beautiful varieties of this flower, from the wild hedge-rose, with its apple-scented leaves, to the splendid Provence rose.

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**Who acts:** She · **What happens:** love, possess, scent · **To what, where:** roses, beautiful varieties, wild hedge rose

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Loveliest Rose in the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (She), 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:pg27200:81:2
# text = She specially loved roses, and therefore she possessed the most beautiful varieties of this flower, from the wild hedge-rose, with its apple-scented leaves, to the splendid Provence rose.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	specially	specially	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	possessed	possess	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	12	advmod	_	_
12	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	varieties	variety	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
20	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
21	hedge	hedge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
26	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
27	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	scented	scent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	amod	_	_
30	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
34	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
35	Provence	provence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | past | She | roses |  |  |  | specially *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rose=Stimulus |
| 2 | **possess** | past | she | the beautiful varieties of this flower |  | the wild hedge rose and garden's scented leaves |  | to the splendid Provence rose; therefore *property* | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot variety=Theme |
| 3 | **scent** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |

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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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