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title: It was so beautiful, that even the blocks of ice danced about for jo… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 5, sentence 45

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It was so beautiful, that even the blocks of ice danced about for joy; and when they were tired and laid themselves down, they formed exactly the letters which the Snow Queen had told him to find out; so now he was his own master, and he would have the whole world and a pair of new skates into the bargain.

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**Who acts:** joy, that, blocks, Snow Queen, letters, Hereupon · **What happens:** be, dance, lay down, form, tell, find out · **To what, where:** blocks, letters, Hereupon, own master, whole world, bargain · **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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (joy, that, blocks, Snow Queen), 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:pg1597:15:45
# text = It was so beautiful, that even the blocks of ice danced about for joy; and when they were tired and laid themselves down, they formed exactly the letters which the Snow Queen had told him to find out; so now he was his own master, and he would have the whole world and a pair of new skates into the bargain.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	nsubj	_	_
7	even	even	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	blocks	block	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	danced	dance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
13	about	about	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	21	mark	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
24	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	23	obj	_	_
25	down	down	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	formed	form	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
29	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	obj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	Snow	Snow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
36	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	acl:relcl	_	_
38	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	iobj	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	xcomp	_	_
41	out	out	ADP	RP	_	40	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
43	so	so	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	49	advmod	_	_
45	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
46	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	cop	_	_
47	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
48	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
52	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
53	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
54	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
56	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obj	_	_
58	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
59	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	conj	_	_
61	of	of	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
62	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	63	amod	_	_
63	skates	skate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	60	nmod	_	_
64	into	into	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
65	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	66	det	_	_
66	bargain	bargain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | joy |  |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **dance** | past | that |  |  |  |  | for joy; about *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | blocks *= block* |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **lay down** | past | blocks *= block* *not said here* | blocks *= block* |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Result |
| 5 | **form** | past | blocks *= block* | the letters |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | the Snow Queen | the letters | Hereupon |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **find out** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the letters *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **is a** | past | Hereupon | Hereupon's own master |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **have** | would | Hereupon | the whole world and a pair of new skates |  | the bargain |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=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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