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title: The flakes of snow covered her long fair hair, which fell in beautif… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The flakes of snow covered her long fair hair, which fell in beautiful curls around her neck; but of that, of course, she never once now thought. Who acts: flakes, long fair hair, maiden. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Match Girl, with its dependency tree and th
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl, sentence 10

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The flakes of snow covered her long fair hair, which fell in beautiful curls around her neck; but of that, of course, she never once now thought.

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**Who acts:** flakes, long fair hair, maiden · **What happens:** cover, fall, think · **To what, where:** long fair hair, beautiful curls

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Match Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flakes, long fair hair, maiden), 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:pg1597:24:10
# text = The flakes of snow covered her long fair hair, which fell in beautiful curls around her neck; but of that, of course, she never once now thought.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	flakes	flake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	covered	cover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
7	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	curls	curl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	around	around	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
28	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	31	advmod	_	_
30	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	_
31	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | past | the flakes of snow | maiden's long fair hair |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hair=Destination |
| 2 | **fall** | past | maiden's long fair hair |  |  | beautiful curls |  | around maiden's neck | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in curl=Location |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | participle | maiden |  |  |  | now | of that; once *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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