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title: Many a winter's night she flies through the streets of the town, and… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Many a winter's night she flies through the streets of the town, and peeps in at the windows; and they then freeze in so wondrous a manner that they look like flowers.” Who acts: swarm, streets. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 1, with its dependency tre
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 40

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Many a winter's night she flies through the streets of the town, and peeps in at the windows; and they then freeze in so wondrous a manner that they look like flowers.”

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**Who acts:** swarm, streets · **What happens:** fly, peep, freeze, look · **To what, where:** streets, wondrous manner

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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 (swarm, streets), 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:pg1597:11:40
# text = Many a winter's night she flies through the streets of the town, and peeps in at the windows; and they then freeze in so wondrous a manner that they look like flowers.”
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	flies	fly	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	through	through	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	peeps	peep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
25	freeze	freeze	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	wondrous	wondrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
34	like	like	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | present | swarm |  |  | the streets of the town | night |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent through street=Location |
| 2 | **peep** | present | swarm *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the windows | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at window=Theme |
| 3 | **freeze** | present | streets *= street* |  |  | a wondrous manner | then |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **look** | present | streets *= street* |  |  |  |  | like flowers | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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