--- title: It was on the third day when a little personage without horse or equ… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: It was on the third day when a little personage without horse or equipage, came marching right boldly up to the palace; his eyes shone like yours, he had beautiful long hair, but his clothes were very shabby.” Who acts: cleverest, little personage, eyes, personage. 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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 (cleverest, little personage, eyes, personage), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg1597:13:46 # text = It was on the third day when a little personage without horse or equipage, came marching right boldly up to the palace; his eyes shone like yours, he had beautiful long hair, but his clothes were very shabby.” 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 third third ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 6 amod _ _ 6 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 personage personage NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 11 without without ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 equipage equipage NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 16 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 17 marching march VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 xcomp _ _ 18 right right ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 boldly boldly ADV RB Degree=Pos 17 advmod _ _ 20 up up ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 shone shine VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 28 like like ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 yours your PRON PRP Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 33 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 34 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 37 but but CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 38 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 42 nsubj _ _ 40 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 41 very very ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 42 shabby shabby ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ” " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | cleverest *= clever* | | | | on the third day | | tree rules | | 2 | **come** | past | a little personage without horse or equipage | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **march** | gerund | a little personage without horse or equipage *not said here* | | | the palace | | boldly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up palace=Trajectory | | 4 | **shine** | past | personage's eyes | | | | | like yours | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **have** | past | personage | beautiful long hair | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient | | 6 | **is** | past | personage's clothes | | | | | shabby *property* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/13/45/) - next →: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/13/47/) - ↑ back to [The Snow Queen, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/13/)