--- title: The earth wears a snowy garment, and looks like marble hewn out of t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The earth wears a snowy garment, and looks like marble hewn out of the rock; the air is bright and clear; the wind is sharp as a well-tempered sword, and the trees stand like branches of white coral or blooming almond twigs, and here it is keen as on the lofty Alps. 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C. Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (earth, marble, air, wind), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:11:2 # text = The earth wears a snowy garment, and looks like marble hewn out of the rock; the air is bright and clear; the wind is sharp as a well-tempered sword, and the trees stand like branches of white coral or blooming almond twigs, and here it is keen as on the lofty Alps. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 wears wear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 snowy snowy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 garment garment NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 10 like like ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 marble marble NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 12 hewn hewn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 acl _ _ 13 out out ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 29 as as ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 31 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 33 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 tempered temper VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 amod _ _ 34 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ _ 39 stand stand VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 40 like like ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 branches branch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obl _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 coral coral NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod _ _ 45 or or CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 blooming bloom VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 44 conj _ _ 47 almond almond NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 compound _ _ 48 twigs twig NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 51 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 54 advmod _ _ 52 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 54 nsubj _ _ 53 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 54 cop _ _ 54 keen keen ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 conj _ _ 55 as as ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 56 on on ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 57 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 59 det _ _ 58 lofty lofty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 59 amod _ _ 59 Alps Alp PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 54 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 60 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wear** | present | the earth | a snowy garment | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent garment=Source | | 2 | **look** | present | the earth *not said here* | | | | | like marble | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **hewn out** | participle | marble *not said here* | the rock | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | the air | | | | | bright *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | | the air *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **is** | present | the wind | | | | | as a tempered sword; sharp *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **temper** | participle | | | | | | well *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **stand** | present | the trees | | | | | like branches of white coral | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **bloom** | gerund | the trees *not said here* | almond twigs | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location twig=Theme | | 10 | **is** | present | wind | | | here | | as the lofty Alps; keen *property* | tree rules | 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. **Text:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/11/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/11/3/) - ↑ back to [The Bird of Popular Song](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/11/)