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title: Snow-storms swept over land and sea, and there was difficulty in get… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Snow-storms swept over land and sea, and there was difficulty in getting from one place to another. Who acts: Snow storms, difficulty. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 32

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Snow-storms swept over land and sea, and there was difficulty in getting from one place to another.

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**Who acts:** Snow storms, difficulty · **What happens:** sweep, be, get · **To what, where:** land, difficulty, one place

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Snow storms, difficulty), 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:pg27200:160:32
# text = Snow-storms swept over land and sea, and there was difficulty in getting from one place to another.
1	Snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	storms	storm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	swept	sweep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
14	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sweep** | past | Snow storms |  |  | land and sea |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over land=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | difficulty |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **get** | gerund | difficulty *not said here* |  |  | one place to another |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme from place=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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