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title: It then seemed to him as if what he knew was not enough, and he look… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It then seemed to him as if what he knew was not enough, and he looked upwards in the large huge empty space above him, and on she flew with him; flew high over the black clouds, while the storm moaned and whistled as though it were singing some old tune. Who acts: It, countenance, queen, storm. A s
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 116

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It then seemed to him as if what he knew was not enough, and he looked upwards in the large huge empty space above him, and on she flew with him; flew high over the black clouds, while the storm moaned and whistled as though it were singing some old tune.

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**Who acts:** It, countenance, queen, storm · **What happens:** seem, know, not be, look, fly, moan · **To what, where:** countenance, black clouds, old tune · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, countenance, queen, storm), 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:pg1597:11:116
# text = It then seemed to him as if what he knew was not enough, and he looked upwards in the large huge empty space above him, and on she flew with him; flew high over the black clouds, while the storm moaned and whistled as though it were singing some old tune.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	obl	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
18	upwards	upwards	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
22	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
25	above	above	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
36	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	35	advmod	_	_
37	over	over	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
45	moaned	moan	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	whistled	whistle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	conj	_	_
48	as	as	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
49	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
50	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
51	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	47	advcl	_	_
53	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	55	det	_	_
54	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	tune	tune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | It |  | countenance |  | then |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **know** | past | countenance |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **not** **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | enough *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **look** | past | countenance |  |  |  |  | in the large huge empty space above soul; upwards *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in space=Theme |
| 5 | **fly** | past | queen |  |  |  |  | with countenance | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **fly** | past |  |  |  | the black clouds |  | high *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over cloud=Location |
| 7 | **moan** | past | the storm |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **whistle** | past | the storm *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **sing** *speech: express* | past · progressive | storm | some old tune |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tune=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:** «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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