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title: They were the most beautiful ice-flowers any Snow Man could desire,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They were the most beautiful ice-flowers any Snow Man could desire, but they concealed the stove. Who acts: panes, 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 every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 97

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They were the most beautiful ice-flowers any Snow Man could desire, but they concealed the stove.

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**Who acts:** panes, Snow Man · **What happens:** be, desire, conceal · **To what, where:** beautiful ice flowers, 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 (panes, 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:pg27200:169:97
# text = They were the most beautiful ice-flowers any Snow Man could desire, but they concealed the stove.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
9	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
10	Snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	desire	desire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	concealed	conceal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	stove	stove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | panes *= pane* | the beautiful ice flowers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **desire** | could | any Snow Man | the beautiful ice flowers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot flower=Theme |
| 3 | **conceal** | past | panes *= pane* | the stove |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stove=Patient |

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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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