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title: And every flake seemed larger, and appeared like a magnificent flowe… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And every flake seemed larger, and appeared like a magnificent flower, or beautiful star; it was splendid to look at! Who acts: flake, snow. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 84

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And every flake seemed larger, and appeared like a magnificent flower, or beautiful star; it was splendid to look at!

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**Who acts:** flake, snow · **What happens:** seem, appear, be, look · **To what, where:** beautiful star

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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 (flake, snow), 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:pg1597:11:84
# text = And every flake seemed larger, and appeared like a magnificent flower, or beautiful star; it was splendid to look at!
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	flake	flake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | every flake |  |  |  |  | large *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **appear** | past | every flake *not said here* | beautiful star |  |  |  | like a magnificent flower | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | snow |  |  |  |  | splendid *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **look** | to-infinitive | snow *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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