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title: In winter, when the snow lay glittering on the ground, a hare would… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In winter, when the snow lay glittering on the ground, a hare would often come leaping along, and jump right over the little Tree. Who acts: snow, hare. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 14

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In winter, when the snow lay glittering on the ground, a hare would often come leaping along, and jump right over the little Tree.

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**Who acts:** snow, hare · **What happens:** lie, glitter, come, leap, jump · **To what, where:** ground, little Tree

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snow, hare), 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:pg1597:10:14
# text = In winter, when the snow lay glittering on the ground, a hare would often come leaping along, and jump right over the little Tree.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	glittering	glitter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	often	often	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
18	leaping	leap	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	xcomp	_	_
19	along	along	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
23	right	right	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	over	over	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	Tree	Tree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | the snow |  |  |  | winter |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **glitter** | gerund | the snow *not said here* |  |  | the ground |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ground=Location |
| 3 | **come** | would | a hare |  |  |  |  | often *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **leap** | gerund | a hare *not said here* |  |  |  |  | along *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **jump** | infinitive | a hare *not said here* |  |  | the little Tree |  | right *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over tree=Trajectory |

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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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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