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title: I fancy that Death, looking back upon the monument, gave him a singl… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I fancy that Death, looking back upon the monument, gave him a single snow-flake as provision, a snow-flake that never melts, and this flake floated over his royal head, like a white butterfly, into the land of eternity. Who acts: I, snow flake, flake. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian An
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Visit, sentence 49

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I fancy that Death, looking back upon the monument, gave him a single snow-flake as provision, a snow-flake that never melts, and this flake floated over his royal head, like a white butterfly, into the land of eternity.

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**Who acts:** I, snow flake, flake · **What happens:** fancy, look back, give, not melt, float · **To what, where:** Death, single snow flake, royal head

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, snow flake, flake), 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:pg27200:138:49
# text = I fancy that Death, looking back upon the monument, gave him a single snow-flake as provision, a snow-flake that never melts, and this flake floated over his royal head, like a white butterfly, into the land of eternity.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fancy	fancy	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	Death	Death	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	monument	monument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	iobj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	flake	flake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	provision	provision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	flake	flake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
27	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	melts	melt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
32	flake	flake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	floated	float	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
34	over	over	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
36	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	like	like	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	into	into	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	eternity	eternity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fancy** | present | I | Death |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **look back** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon the monument | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon monument=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | past |  | a single snow flake and a snow flake | death |  |  | as provision | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient flake=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **melt** | present | a snow flake |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **float** | past | this flake |  |  | provision's royal head |  | like a white butterfly; into the land of eternity | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme over head=Source into land=Trajectory |

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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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