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title: All around it looked so cold and raw: the long willow-leaves were qu… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: All around it looked so cold and raw: the long willow-leaves were quite yellow, and the fog dripped from them like water; one leaf fell after the other: the sloes only stood full of fruit, which set one's teeth on edge. Who acts: it, long willow leaves, fog, one leaf. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 6

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All around it looked so cold and raw: the long willow-leaves were quite yellow, and the fog dripped from them like water; one leaf fell after the other: the sloes only stood full of fruit, which set one's teeth on edge.

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**Who acts:** it, long willow leaves, fog, one leaf, sloes, fruit · **What happens:** look, be, drip, fall, stand, set · **To what, where:** teeth, edge

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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 (it, long willow leaves, fog, one leaf), 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:pg1597:13:6
# text = All around it looked so cold and raw: the long willow-leaves were quite yellow, and the fog dripped from them like water; one leaf fell after the other: the sloes only stood full of fruit, which set one's teeth on edge.
1	All	all	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	around	around	ADP	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	raw	raw	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	willow	willow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	fog	fog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	dripped	drip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
25	like	like	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
28	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
31	after	after	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	sloes	sloe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
37	only	only	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
39	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	xcomp	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	44	nsubj	_	_
44	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	acl:relcl	_	_
45	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	's	's	PART	POS	_	45	case	_	_
47	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obj	_	_
48	on	on	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | it |  |  |  |  | all, cold *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past | the long willow leaves |  |  |  |  | yellow *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **drip** | past | the fog |  |  |  |  | from leaves *= leaf*; like water | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from they=Source |
| 4 | **fall** | past | one leaf |  |  |  | after the other |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **stand** | past | the sloes |  |  |  |  | full *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **set** | past | fruit | one's teeth |  | edge |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme on edge=Destination |

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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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