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title: The Hindoo woman in her long robe stands upon the funeral pile; the… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Hindoo woman in her long robe stands upon the funeral pile; the flames rise around her and her dead husband, but the Hindoo woman thinks on the living one in the surrounding circle; on him whose eyes burn hotter than the flames--on him, the fire of whose eyes pierces her heart more than the flam
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 77

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The Hindoo woman in her long robe stands upon the funeral pile; the flames rise around her and her dead husband, but the Hindoo woman thinks on the living one in the surrounding circle; on him whose eyes burn hotter than the flames--on him, the fire of whose eyes pierces her heart more than the flames which soon will burn her body to ashes.

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**Who acts:** Hindoo woman, flames, eyes · **What happens:** stand, rise, think, surround, burn, fire · **To what, where:** funeral pile, fire pierces, body, eyes

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hindoo woman, flames, 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:pg1597:12:77
# text = The Hindoo woman in her long robe stands upon the funeral pile; the flames rise around her and her dead husband, but the Hindoo woman thinks on the living one in the surrounding circle; on him whose eyes burn hotter than the flames--on him, the fire of whose eyes pierces her heart more than the flames which soon will burn her body to ashes.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Hindoo	Hindoo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	funeral	funeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	pile	pile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	rise	rise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
17	around	around	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	Hindoo	Hindoo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	flat	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	surrounding	surround	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	36	amod	_	_
36	circle	circle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
38	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obl	_	_
40	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nsubj	_	_
42	burn	burn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
43	hotter	hot	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	42	xcomp	_	_
44	than	than	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	on	on	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	compound	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	55	nmod:poss	_	_
55	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	nmod	_	_
56	pierces	pierce	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obj	_	_
57	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	58	nmod:poss	_	_
58	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
59	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	42	advmod	_	_
60	than	than	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	59	obl	_	_
63	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	66	nsubj	_	_
64	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	66	advmod	_	_
65	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	66	aux	_	_
66	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	62	acl:relcl	_	_
67	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	68	nmod:poss	_	_
68	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	66	obj	_	_
69	to	to	ADP	IN	_	70	case	_	_
70	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	66	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | present | the Hindoo woman in Woman's long robe |  |  | the funeral pile |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon pile=Location |
| 2 | **rise** | present | the flames |  |  |  |  | around Woman | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around she=Location |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | present | the Hindoo woman |  |  |  |  | on the living | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on living=Topic |
| 4 | **surround** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **burn** | present | eyes | fire pierces |  |  |  | on husband; on husband; hot *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **burn** | future | the flames | Woman's body |  |  |  | to ashes; soon *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent body=Theme |
| 7 | **fire** |  |  | the fire of the fire of eyes's eyes's eyes |  |  |  |  | nom fire «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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