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title: The roses on the leads hung blooming in at the open window; there st… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The roses on the leads hung blooming in at the open window; there stood the little children's chairs, and Kay and Gerda sat down on them, holding each other by the hand; they both had forgotten the cold empty splendor of the Snow Queen, as though it had been a dream. Who acts: roses, Kay, children, 
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 5, sentence 74

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The roses on the leads hung blooming in at the open window; there stood the little children's chairs, and Kay and Gerda sat down on them, holding each other by the hand; they both had forgotten the cold empty splendor of the Snow Queen, as though it had been a dream.

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**Who acts:** roses, Kay, children, splendor · **What happens:** hang, bloom, stand, sit down, hold, forget · **To what, where:** open window, chairs, each, cold empty splendor, dream

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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 (roses, Kay, children, splendor), 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:pg1597:15:74
# text = The roses on the leads hung blooming in at the open window; there stood the little children's chairs, and Kay and Gerda sat down on them, holding each other by the hand; they both had forgotten the cold empty splendor of the Snow Queen, as though it had been a dream.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	leads	lead	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	blooming	bloom	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	_
8	in	in	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
15	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	chairs	chair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	Kay	Kay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
27	down	down	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
32	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	31	obj	_	_
33	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	fixed	_	_
34	by	by	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
38	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
39	both	both	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
40	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
43	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
44	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	splendor	splendor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	Snow	Snow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	_
49	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
51	as	as	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
52	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
53	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
54	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
55	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	57	cop	_	_
56	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | past | the roses on the leads |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bloom** | gerund | the roses on the leads *not said here* |  |  | the open window |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at window=Location |
| 3 | **stand** | past | the roses on the leads *not said here* | the little children's chairs |  | there |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chair=Stimulus |
| 4 | **sit down** | past | Kay and Gerda |  |  |  |  | on children *= child* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on they=Location |
| 5 | **hold** | gerund | Kay and Gerda *not said here* | each |  |  |  | by the hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent each=Theme by hand=Location |
| 6 | **forget** | past · perfect | children *= child* | the cold empty splendor of the Snow Queen |  |  |  | both *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **is a** | past · perfect | splendor | a dream |  |  |  |  | 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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