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title: Little Kay was quite blue, yes nearly black with cold; but he did no… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Little Kay was quite blue, yes nearly black with cold; but he did not observe it, for she had kissed away all feeling of cold from his body, and his heart was a lump of ice. Who acts: Little Kay, Kay, Mirth, heart. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 5, wit
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 5, sentence 19

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Little Kay was quite blue, yes nearly black with cold; but he did not observe it, for she had kissed away all feeling of cold from his body, and his heart was a lump of ice.

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**Who acts:** Little Kay, Kay, Mirth, heart · **What happens:** be, not observe, kiss away · **To what, where:** lake, feeling, lump

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Little Kay, Kay, Mirth, heart), 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:pg1597:15:19
# text = Little Kay was quite blue, yes nearly black with cold; but he did not observe it, for she had kissed away all feeling of cold from his body, and his heart was a lump of ice.
1	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Kay	Kay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	9	discourse	_	_
8	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	observe	observe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
24	away	away	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	nmod	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	lump	lump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Little Kay |  |  |  |  | blue *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **observe** | past · do-support | Kay | lake |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 3 | **kiss away** | past · perfect | Mirth | all feeling of cold |  |  |  | away *property* | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | past | Kay's heart | a lump |  |  |  | of ice | 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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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