--- title: Tamarinds and acacias were in full bloom all over the country, the c… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Tamarinds and acacias were in full bloom all over the country, the crescent of Mahomet glittered brightly from the cupolas of the mosques, and on the slender pinnacles sat many of the storks, resting after their long journey. Who acts: Tamarinds, crescent, slender pinnacles, storks. 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C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tamarinds, crescent, slender pinnacles, storks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:84:42 # text = Tamarinds and acacias were in full bloom all over the country, the crescent of Mahomet glittered brightly from the cupolas of the mosques, and on the slender pinnacles sat many of the storks, resting after their long journey. 1 Tamarinds tamarind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 acacias acacia NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 bloom bloom NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 all all ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 9 over over ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 crescent crescent NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Mahomet Mahomet PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 glittered glitter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 18 brightly brightly ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 from from ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 cupolas cupola NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 mosques mosque NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 27 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 slender slender ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 pinnacles pinnacle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 31 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 32 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 obj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 storks stork NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 resting rest VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 advcl _ _ 38 after after ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 40 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Tamarinds and acacias | | | full bloom | | over the country | tree rules | | 2 | **glitter** | past | the crescent of Mahomet | | | the cupolas of the mosques | | brightly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **sit** | past | the slender pinnacles | many of the storks | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location many=Theme | | 4 | **rest** | gerund | the slender pinnacles *not said here* | | | | after storks's long journey | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **journey** | | storks *= stork* | | | | | | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/84/41/) - next →: [sentence 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/84/43/) - ↑ back to [The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/84/)