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title: The night was long, but did not appear so to the Snow Man, who stood… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The night was long, but did not appear so to the Snow Man, who stood there enjoying his own reflections, and crackling with the cold. Who acts: night, Snow Man. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 95

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The night was long, but did not appear so to the Snow Man, who stood there enjoying his own reflections, and crackling with the cold.

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**Who acts:** night, Snow Man · **What happens:** be, not appear, stand, enjoy, crackle · **To what, where:** own reflections

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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 (night, Snow Man), 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:pg27200:169:95
# text = The night was long, but did not appear so to the Snow Man, who stood there enjoying his own reflections, and crackling with the cold.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	appear	appear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Snow	Snow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
19	enjoying	enjoy	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	xcomp	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	reflections	reflection	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	crackling	crackle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the night |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **appear** | past · do-support |  |  |  |  |  | to the Snow Man | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stand** | past | the Snow Man |  |  | there |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **enjoy** | gerund | the Snow Man *not said here* | Man's own reflections |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reflection=Stimulus |
| 5 | **crackle** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with the cold | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with cold=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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