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title: The Snow Queen might come back as soon as she liked; there stood his… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Snow Queen might come back as soon as she liked; there stood his discharge written in resplendent masses of ice. Who acts: Snow Queen, Queen, Hereupon. 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 47

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The Snow Queen might come back as soon as she liked; there stood his discharge written in resplendent masses of ice.

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**Who acts:** Snow Queen, Queen, Hereupon · **What happens:** come back, like, stand, write, discharge · **To what, where:** discharge, resplendent masses

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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 (Snow Queen, Queen, Hereupon), 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:pg1597:15:47
# text = The Snow Queen might come back as soon as she liked; there stood his discharge written in resplendent masses of ice.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Snow	Snow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	as	as	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
14	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	discharge	discharge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	xcomp	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	resplendent	resplendent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	masses	mass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come back** | might | the Snow Queen |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **like** | past | Queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **stand** | past | the Snow Queen *not said here* | Hereupon's discharge |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **write** | participle | the Snow Queen *not said here* |  |  | resplendent masses of ice |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in mass=Destination |
| 5 | **discharge** |  | Hereupon |  |  |  |  |  | nom discharge «event transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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