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title: She was so beautiful and delicate, but she was of ice, of dazzling,… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She was so beautiful and delicate, but she was of ice, of dazzling, sparkling ice; yet she lived; her eyes gazed fixedly, like two stars; but there was neither quiet nor repose in them. Who acts: grandmother, eyes. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 1, wit
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 49

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She was so beautiful and delicate, but she was of ice, of dazzling, sparkling ice; yet she lived; her eyes gazed fixedly, like two stars; but there was neither quiet nor repose in them.

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**Who acts:** grandmother, eyes · **What happens:** be, sparkle, live, gaze, repose · **To what, where:** ice

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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 (grandmother, eyes), 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:pg1597:11:49
# text = She was so beautiful and delicate, but she was of ice, of dazzling, sparkling ice; yet she lived; her eyes gazed fixedly, like two stars; but there was neither quiet nor repose in them.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	delicate	delicate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	dazzling	dazzling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	sparkling	sparkle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
18	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	gazed	gaze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
27	fixedly	fixedly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	like	like	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
33	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	35	expl	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
36	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
38	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	39	cc	_	_
39	repose	repose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	conj	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | grandmother |  |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | grandmother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | grandmother |  |  |  |  | of ice and dazzling | tree rules |
| 4 | **sparkle** | gerund | grandmother *not said here* | ice |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ice=Theme |
| 5 | **live** | past | grandmother |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **gaze** | past | grandmother's eyes |  |  |  |  | like two stars; fixedly *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | neither, quiet *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **repose** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | in stars *= star* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in they=Location |

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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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