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title: The summer and the autumn passed; the rose-tree bore roses and buds… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The summer and the autumn passed; the rose-tree bore roses and buds till the snow fell and the weather became raw and wet; then it bent down its head, and the snail crept into the ground. Who acts: summer, snow, weather, snail. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree, sentence 12

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The summer and the autumn passed; the rose-tree bore roses and buds till the snow fell and the weather became raw and wet; then it bent down its head, and the snail crept into the ground.

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**Who acts:** summer, snow, weather, snail · **What happens:** pass, fall, become, bend down, creep · **To what, where:** head, ground

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (summer, snow, weather, snail), 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:pg27200:157:12
# text = The summer and the autumn passed; the rose-tree bore roses and buds till the snow fell and the weather became raw and wet; then it bent down its head, and the snail crept into the ground.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	bore	bore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	parataxis	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	buds	bud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
24	raw	raw	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
28	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	bent	bend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
31	down	down	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	snail	snail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
39	into	into	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | the summer and the autumn |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fall** | past | the snow |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **become** | past | the weather |  |  |  |  | raw *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **bend down** | past | weather | weather's head |  |  | then |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent head=Material |
| 5 | **creep** | past | the snail |  |  | the ground |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into ground=Destination |

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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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