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title: The angels patted her hands and feet; and then she felt the cold les… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The angels patted her hands and feet; and then she felt the cold less, and went on quickly towards the palace of the Snow Queen. Who acts: angels, Gerda. 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 6

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The angels patted her hands and feet; and then she felt the cold less, and went on quickly towards the palace of the Snow Queen.

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**Who acts:** angels, Gerda · **What happens:** pat, feel, go on · **To what, where:** hands

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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 (angels, Gerda), 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:pg1597:15:6
# text = The angels patted her hands and feet; and then she felt the cold less, and went on quickly towards the palace of the Snow Queen.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	angels	angel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	patted	pat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
15	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	on	on	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
21	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	Snow	Snow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pat** | past | the angels | Gerda's hands and feet |  |  |  |  | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Experiencer |
| 2 | **feel** | past | Gerda |  |  |  | then | cold *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **go on** | past | the angels *not said here* |  |  |  |  | towards the palace of the Snow Queen; quickly *property* | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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