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title: It was just as if the people within were under a charm, and had fall… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It was just as if the people within were under a charm, and had fallen into a trance till they came out again into the street; for then--oh, then--they could chatter enough. Who acts: guard, People. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 3, with its dependency
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 38

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It was just as if the people within were under a charm, and had fallen into a trance till they came out again into the street; for then--oh, then--they could chatter enough.

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**Who acts:** guard, People · **What happens:** be, fall, come out, chatter · **To what, where:** people, trance, street, enough

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guard, People), 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:pg1597:13:38
# text = It was just as if the people within were under a charm, and had fallen into a trance till they came out again into the street; for then--oh, then--they could chatter enough.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	as	as	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
8	within	within	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	under	under	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	charm	charm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	trance	trance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
23	out	out	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	again	again	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	38	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
34	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	38	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	chatter	chatter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	parataxis	_	_
39	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | guard | the people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | within a charm | tree rules |
| 3 | **fall** | past · perfect | guard *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into a trance *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into trance=Result |
| 4 | **come out** | past | People |  |  | the street | again | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **chatter** | could | People | enough |  |  | then |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent enough=Theme |

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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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