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title: Gerda well remembered how large and strange the snow-flakes appeared… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Gerda well remembered how large and strange the snow-flakes appeared when she once saw them through a magnifying-glass; but now they were large and terrific in another manner--they were all alive. Who acts: Gerda, snow flakes, flakes. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Sno
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 138

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Gerda well remembered how large and strange the snow-flakes appeared when she once saw them through a magnifying-glass; but now they were large and terrific in another manner--they were all alive.

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**Who acts:** Gerda, snow flakes, flakes · **What happens:** remember, appear, see, magnify, be · **To what, where:** flakes, magnifying glass, manner · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Gerda, snow flakes, flakes), 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:pg1597:1292`): 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:pg1597:14:138
# text = Gerda well remembered how large and strange the snow-flakes appeared when she once saw them through a magnifying-glass; but now they were large and terrific in another manner--they were all alive.
1	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
3	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
11	flakes	flake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	16	advmod	_	_
16	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	through	through	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	magnifying	magnify	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	amod	_	_
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	_
22	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	terrific	terrific	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	33	det	_	_
33	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
36	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
37	all	all	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	parataxis	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | past | Gerda |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **appear** | past | the snow flakes |  |  |  |  | large *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | past | Gerda | flakes *= flake* |  | a magnifying glass |  | once *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 4 | **magnify** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | past | flakes *= flake* |  |  |  | now | large *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | flakes *= flake* *not said here* |  |  | another manner |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** | past | flakes *= flake* |  |  |  |  | alive, all *property* | tree rules |

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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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