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title: It grew thicker and thicker, and took the form of little angels, tha… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It grew thicker and thicker, and took the form of little angels, that grew more and more when they touched the earth. Who acts: cold, that, angels. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 5, sentence 3

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It grew thicker and thicker, and took the form of little angels, that grew more and more when they touched the earth.

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**Who acts:** cold, that, angels · **What happens:** grow, take, touch, form · **To what, where:** form, earth, little angels

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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 (cold, that, angels), 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:pg1597:15:3
# text = It grew thicker and thicker, and took the form of little angels, that grew more and more when they touched the earth.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	thicker	thick	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	thicker	thick	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	angels	angel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	conj	_	_
20	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	touched	touch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | cold |  |  |  |  | thick *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | past | cold *not said here* | the form of little angels |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** | past | that |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **touch** | past | angels *= angel* | the earth |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme earth=Co-Theme |
| 5 | **form** |  |  | little angels |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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