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title: The snow-flakes chase each other, the ice cracks, the storm rules wi… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The snow-flakes chase each other, the ice cracks, the storm rules without, for he has the might, he is lord--but not the LORD OF ALL. Who acts: snow flakes, ice. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song, sentence 35

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The snow-flakes chase each other, the ice cracks, the storm rules without, for he has the might, he is lord--but not the LORD OF ALL.

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**Who acts:** snow flakes, ice · **What happens:** chase, crack, have, lor · **To what, where:** each, storm rules, ice

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. 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 (snow flakes, ice), 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:pg27200:11:35
# text = The snow-flakes chase each other, the ice cracks, the storm rules without, for he has the might, he is lord--but not the LORD OF ALL.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	flakes	flake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	chase	chase	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	5	obj	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	cracks	crack	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
16	without	without	ADP	IN	_	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	lord	lor	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
32	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	ALL	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	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 | **chase** | present | the snow flakes | each |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme |
| 2 | **crack** | present | the ice | the storm rules |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | present | ice |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **lor** | present · passive |  | ice |  |  |  | the LORD of ALL *obl* | 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:** «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.

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