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title: Icy winter comes again, and the "white bees" are swarming, and sting… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Icy winter comes again, and the "white bees" are swarming, and sting the traveller's face till they melt. Who acts: Icy winter, white bees, bees. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 66

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Icy winter comes again, and the "white bees" are swarming, and sting the traveller's face till they melt.

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**Who acts:** Icy winter, white bees, bees · **What happens:** come, swarm, sting, melt · **To what, where:** face

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Icy winter, white bees, bees), 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:pg27200:12:66
# text = Icy winter comes again, and the "white bees" are swarming, and sting the traveller's face till they melt.
1	Icy	icy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	swarming	swarm	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	sting	sting	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	traveller	traveller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
21	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	melt	melt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | Icy winter |  |  |  | again |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **swarm** | present · progressive | the white bees |  |  |  |  |  | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 3 | **sting** | infinitive | the white bees *not said here* | the traveller's face |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus face=Experiencer |
| 4 | **melt** | present | bees *= bee* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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