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title: In summer, with one jump, they could get to each other; but in winte… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In summer, with one jump, they could get to each other; but in winter they were obliged first to go down the long stairs, and then up the long stairs again: and out-of-doors there was quite a snow-storm. Who acts: Kay. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 1,
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 35

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In summer, with one jump, they could get to each other; but in winter they were obliged first to go down the long stairs, and then up the long stairs again: and out-of-doors there was quite a snow-storm.

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**Who acts:** Kay · **What happens:** get, oblige, go down · **To what, where:** doors, Kay, long stairs

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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 (Kay), 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:pg1597:11:35
# text = In summer, with one jump, they could get to each other; but in winter they were obliged first to go down the long stairs, and then up the long stairs again: and out-of-doors there was quite a snow-storm.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	jump	jump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	10	obl	_	_
13	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
21	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	20	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
24	down	down	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
30	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	34	advmod	_	_
31	up	up	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
35	again	again	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
38	out	out	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
43	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	44	expl	_	_
44	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	acl:relcl	_	_
45	quite	quite	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	49	det:predet	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
47	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | could | Kay |  |  | doors | summer | to each | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to each=Initial\_Location out door=Destination |
| 2 | **oblige** | past · passive |  | Kay |  |  | winter | up the long stairs; first *property* | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **go down** | to-infinitive |  | the long stairs |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient stair=Extent |

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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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