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title: And there it increased in strength so much as to be able to withstan… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And there it increased in strength so much as to be able to withstand the cold of winter; and after passing through the severe weather, it seemed to put forth its blossoms in spring for very joy that the cold season had gone. Who acts: sun, it, cold season. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christi
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 94

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And there it increased in strength so much as to be able to withstand the cold of winter; and after passing through the severe weather, it seemed to put forth its blossoms in spring for very joy that the cold season had gone.

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**Who acts:** sun, it, cold season · **What happens:** increase, be, withstand, pass, seem, put · **To what, where:** much, strength, cold, severe weather, blossoms, joy

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, it, cold season), 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:pg27200:128:94
# text = And there it increased in strength so much as to be able to withstand the cold of winter; and after passing through the severe weather, it seemed to put forth its blossoms in spring for very joy that the cold season had gone.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	increased	increase	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obj	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
12	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	advcl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	withstand	withstand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
21	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
23	through	through	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	severe	severe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	very	very	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
40	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
44	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	39	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **increase** | past | sun | much |  | strength; there |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer much=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | sun *not said here* |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **withstand** | to-infinitive | sun *not said here* | the cold of winter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **pass** | gerund |  |  |  | the severe weather |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through weather=Location |
| 5 | **seem** | past | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 6 | **put** | to-infinitive |  | sun's blossoms |  |  | spring | for joy; forth *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent blossom=Goal |
| 7 | **go** | past · perfect | the cold season | joy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location joy=Theme |

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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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