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title: The flower must be one from the garden of love; but which of the ros… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The flower must be one from the garden of love; but which of the roses there showed forth the highest and purest love? Who acts: flower, roses. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Loveliest Rose in the World, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Loveliest Rose in the World, sentence 9

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The flower must be one from the garden of love; but which of the roses there showed forth the highest and purest love?

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**Who acts:** flower, roses · **What happens:** be, show · **To what, where:** one, garden, highest love

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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 (flower, roses), 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:pg27200:81:9
# text = The flower must be one from the garden of love; but which of the roses there showed forth the highest and purest love?
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
17	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
18	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
19	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	24	amod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	purest	pure	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	conj	_	_
24	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | must | the flower | one |  | the garden of love |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **show** | past | the roses | the highest love |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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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