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title: When she had unrolled it, strange characters were to be seen written… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When she had unrolled it, strange characters were to be seen written thereon; and the Finland woman read at such a rate that the perspiration trickled down her forehead. Who acts: strength, strange characters, Finland woman, perspiration. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 117

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When she had unrolled it, strange characters were to be seen written thereon; and the Finland woman read at such a rate that the perspiration trickled down her forehead.

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**Who acts:** strength, strange characters, Finland woman, perspiration · **What happens:** unroll, see, write, read, trickle down · **To what, where:** skin, strange characters, rate, forehead

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strength, strange characters, Finland woman, perspiration), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg1597:1274`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg1597:14:117
# text = When she had unrolled it, strange characters were to be seen written thereon; and the Finland woman read at such a rate that the perspiration trickled down her forehead.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	unrolled	unroll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	characters	character	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	xcomp	_	_
14	thereon	thereon	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Finland	Finland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	read	read	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	24	det:predet	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	rate	rate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	perspiration	perspiration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	trickled	trickle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
29	down	down	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	forehead	forehead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **unroll** | past · perfect | strength | skin |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **see** | past · passive |  | strange characters |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **write** | participle | strange characters *not said here* |  |  |  |  | thereon *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **read** | past | the Finland woman |  |  | such rate |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent at rate=Value |
| 5 | **trickle down** | past | the perspiration | strength's forehead |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location forehead=Source |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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