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title: First came the lofty Alps, snow-clad, and covered with clouds and da… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: First came the lofty Alps, snow-clad, and covered with clouds and dark pines. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 190

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First came the lofty Alps, snow-clad, and covered with clouds and dark pines.

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**What happens:** come, cover · **To what, where:** lofty Alps

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg27200:140:190
# text = First came the lofty Alps, snow-clad, and covered with clouds and dark pines.
1	First	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	2	advmod	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Alps	Alp	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	clad	clad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	pines	pine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  | the lofty Alps and snow clad |  |  |  | first *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location alp=Theme |
| 2 | **cover** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with clouds and dark pines | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with cloud=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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