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title: The violets exhaled their sweet breath, whilst I pressed against the… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The violets exhaled their sweet breath, whilst I pressed against the windowpanes covered with fantastic frost-work the copper coin I had heated on the stove, and so made peep-holes. Who acts: violets, I. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, with its
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 43

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The violets exhaled their sweet breath, whilst I pressed against the windowpanes covered with fantastic frost-work the copper coin I had heated on the stove, and so made peep-holes.

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**Who acts:** violets, I · **What happens:** exhale, press, cover, heat, make · **To what, where:** sweet breath, made peep holes, windowpanes, copper coin

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (violets, I), 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:pg1597:8:43
# text = The violets exhaled their sweet breath, whilst I pressed against the windowpanes covered with fantastic frost-work the copper coin I had heated on the stove, and so made peep-holes.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	violets	violet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	exhaled	exhale	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	pressed	press	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	against	against	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	windowpanes	windowpane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	fantastic	fantastic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	frost	frost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	coin	coin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	heated	heat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	stove	stove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
31	so	so	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	amod	_	_
33	peep	peep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exhale** | past | the violets | violets's sweet breath |  |  |  |  | vn exhale-40.1.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme |
| 2 | **press** | past | I | made peep holes |  |  |  | against the windowpanes | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent against windowpane=Theme |
| 3 | **cover** | participle |  | the windowpanes *not said here* |  |  |  | with fantastic frost work and the copper coin | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with work=Theme |
| 4 | **heat** | past · perfect | I | the copper coin *not said here* |  |  |  | on the stove | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent coin=Patient on stove=Instrument |
| 5 | **make** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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