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title: During the whole day the Snow Man stood looking in through the windo… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: During the whole day the Snow Man stood looking in through the window, and in the twilight hour the room became still more inviting, for from the stove came a gentle glow, not like the sun or the moon; no, only the bright light which gleams from a stove when it has been well fed. Who acts: Snow Man,
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 91

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During the whole day the Snow Man stood looking in through the window, and in the twilight hour the room became still more inviting, for from the stove came a gentle glow, not like the sun or the moon; no, only the bright light which gleams from a stove when it has been well fed.

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**Who acts:** Snow Man, room, bright light · **What happens:** stand, look in, become, invite, come, gleam · **To what, where:** bright light, gentle glow, stove

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Snow Man, room, bright light), 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:pg27200:169:91
# text = During the whole day the Snow Man stood looking in through the window, and in the twilight hour the room became still more inviting, for from the stove came a gentle glow, not like the sun or the moon; no, only the bright light which gleams from a stove when it has been well fed.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Snow	Snow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	_
10	in	in	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	through	through	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	twilight	twilight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
23	still	still	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
25	inviting	invite	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	stove	stove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
31	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	glow	glow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	39	advmod	_	_
37	like	like	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
40	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
44	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	49	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
46	only	only	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
50	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	51	nsubj	_	_
51	gleams	gleam	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	49	acl:relcl	_	_
52	from	from	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	stove	stove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	_
55	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	60	mark	_	_
56	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	nsubj:pass	_	_
57	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	60	aux	_	_
58	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	60	aux:pass	_	_
59	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	60	advmod	_	_
60	fed	feed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	51	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | the Snow Man | the bright light |  |  | day |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **look in** | gerund | the Snow Man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | through the window | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through window=Theme |
| 3 | **become** | past | the room |  |  |  | hour |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **invite** | gerund | the room *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn promote-102 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **come** | past | the room *not said here* | a gentle glow |  | the stove |  | like the sun or the moon | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location glow=Theme |
| 6 | **gleam** | present | the bright light |  |  | a stove |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **feed** | present · perfect · passive |  | stove |  |  |  | well *property* | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=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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