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title: The sun now set: a freezing cold, though of short duration pervaded… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The sun now set: a freezing cold, though of short duration pervaded the whole creation; it was like a horrid gust coming from a burial-vault on a warm summer's day--but all around the mountains retained that wonderful green tone which we see in some old pictures, and which, should we not have seen a
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 84

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The sun now set: a freezing cold, though of short duration pervaded the whole creation; it was like a horrid gust coming from a burial-vault on a warm summer's day--but all around the mountains retained that wonderful green tone which we see in some old pictures, and which, should we not have seen a similar play of color in the South, we declare at once to be unnatural.

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**Who acts:** freezing, horrid gust, we, color · **What happens:** set, pervade, be, come, retain, see · **To what, where:** sun, whole creation, burial vault, mountains, wonderful green tone, old pictures

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, 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 (freezing, horrid gust, we, color), 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:pg1597:9:84
# text = The sun now set: a freezing cold, though of short duration pervaded the whole creation; it was like a horrid gust coming from a burial-vault on a warm summer's day--but all around the mountains retained that wonderful green tone which we see in some old pictures, and which, should we not have seen a similar play of color in the South, we declare at once to be unnatural.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	freezing	freezing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	duration	duration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
14	pervaded	pervade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	creation	creation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
21	like	like	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	horrid	horrid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	gust	gust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
25	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	burial	burial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	vault	vault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	's	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
39	all	all	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
40	around	around	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	_
43	retained	retain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
44	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	43	obj	_	_
45	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
46	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
48	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	50	obj	_	_
49	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
50	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	acl:relcl	_	_
51	in	in	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
52	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	54	det	_	_
53	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	63	cc	_	_
57	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	63	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
59	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	63	aux	_	_
60	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	63	nsubj	_	_
61	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	63	advmod	_	_
62	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	63	aux	_	_
63	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	50	parataxis	_	_
64	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	66	det	_	_
65	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	66	amod	_	_
66	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	obj	_	_
67	of	of	ADP	IN	_	68	case	_	_
68	color	color	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	66	nmod	_	_
69	in	in	ADP	IN	_	71	case	_	_
70	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	71	det	_	_
71	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	68	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
72	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	74	punct	_	_
73	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	74	nsubj	_	_
74	declare	declare	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	63	conj	_	_
75	at	at	ADP	IN	_	76	case	_	_
76	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	74	obl	_	_
77	to	to	PART	TO	_	79	mark	_	_
78	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	79	cop	_	_
79	unnatural	unnatural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	76	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
80	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | participle · passive |  | the sun |  |  | now |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
| 2 | **pervade** | past |  | the whole creation |  |  |  | of short duration | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | freezing |  |  |  |  | like a horrid gust | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | gerund | a horrid gust *not said here* |  |  | a burial vault | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from vault=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **retain** | past |  |  |  | the mountains |  | all *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **see** | present | we | wonderful green tone |  | some old pictures |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |
| 7 | **not** **see** | should · perfect |  | a similar play of color in the South |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer play=Stimulus |
| 8 | **declare** *speech: other* | present | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **is** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unnatural *property* | tree rules |
| 10 | **play** |  | color in the South |  |  |  |  |  | nom play «communication intransitive»: of=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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